Do you know who you are? If the question seems unclear, it might owe to the notion of ‘knowing-wh’ (knowing-who, knowing-what, knowing-when, etc.). Such knowledge contrasts with ‘knowing-that’, the more familiar topic of epistemologists. But these days, knowing-wh is receiving more attention than ever, and here we will survey three current debates on the nature of knowing-wh. These debates concern, respectively, (1) whether all knowing-wh is reducible to knowing-that (‘generalized intellectualism’), (2) whether all knowing-wh is relativized to a contrast proposition (‘contrastivism about knowing-wh’), and (3) whether the context-sensitivity of knowing-wh is a semantic or purely pragmatic phenomenon (‘contextualism vs. invariantism about knowing-wh’).

Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions

Knowing-Wh and Embedded Questions

Chapter One: Adult-Child Sex, Pedophilia, and Hebophilia Chapter Two: Disease Chapter Three: Adult-Child Sex and Backward-Looking Reasons Chapter Four: How Consent Works Chapter Five: Exploitation Chapter Six: Adult-Child Sex and Forward-Looking Reasons Chapter Seven: Pedophilic Fantasies Chapter Eight: Criminalization

Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis

The formal representation for legal or other narratives as introduced by Nissan (2001; 2002; 2003a; 2003b; 2003d; 2003a is adapted to the analysis of a case study in WaterTime, a project developed by David Hall and his collaborators in view of the development of a decision model for policy making, concerning the privatization of city water systems throughout the European Union. In WaterTime, the experience of several cities is analyzed and compared. In particular, Hall and Lobina (2001) have analyzed the privatization, in 1989, of the city water system in Grenoble, France. Eventually, corruption was proven, and the system was partly remunicipalized; court decisions led to its full remunicipalization. We sketch a symbolic representation of events in this narrative.

A formalism for a case study in the watertime project: The city water system in grenoble, from privatization to remunicipalization

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This work defends method infallibilism, the thesis that propositional knowledge is belief based on a infallible method. The view belongs to the family of modal analyses of knowledge that have been developed in the the last fifty years. We put these analyses in a historical perspective and characterise their form and variants rigorously. Method infallibilism is defended as the simplest modal analysis that satisfies two constraints needed to avoid the Gettier problem and what we call the necessary truth problem. We implement the view in a new formal model for knowledge and a contextualist account of knowledge attributions, though we leave open whether the latter should be endorsed.

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Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions

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Knowing-Wh and Embedded Questions

Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis

A formalism for a case study in the watertime project: The city water system in grenoble, from privatization to remunicipalization

Fake news, relevant alternatives, and the degradation of our epistemic environment

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