Timothy Williamson's Philosophy Of Mind
Timothy Williamson is a contemporary British philosopher that presents a new concept of rationality. This concept refers to a direction of mind as mental to the external world that is the source of whole possible truth which the external world become a part of mind. So, Williamson tries to combine between subject and object (man and world) by neutral epistemological method in a structure doesn’t accept analysis. Therefore knowledge covert from being prior conditions to be series of virtual assertions. So that, Critique of Belief and its philosophical dimensions in Timothy Williamson's Philosophy of mind means attempt toward answering some question as: what are the conditions and dimensions of belief? , what is the role of belief in knowing
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process? , how can Williamson reach to Realistic Philosophy by his concept of belief? How could this concept help in presenting new metaphysics differ from Aristotle and Kant ones? , how can he explain the relation between belief, knowledge, language?
Williamson start to present concept of belief according to its content so , he divided it to three kinds as : pure belief that doesn’t need external world to confirm it , true belief that its content is external objects and justified true belief that its content external objects and depend on some of arguments or mental reasons .
But Williamson sees that however belief is mental state, it isn’t knowledge because losing most important condition that is external evidence. And By Timothy Williamson’s concept of rationality the belief become internal process and it considers main and necessary stage for reaching to all possible knowledge. This belief may be become knowledge when its content is state of …show more content…
knowledge.
Williamson refuses all metaphysical thoughts point to separation of subject form reality. So, he presents a new vision that decides primacy and necessity of objective reality instead of metaphysical thought that refers to subjective thinking. Therefore, experiment became prior condition for knowledge. Thus, Williamson moved metaphysical concepts as: necessary and a prior to reality.
That explains how Williamson understands belief in borders of knowing linguistically. He refuses broad belief statements and linguistic vagueness and its unlimited natural in some Linguistic doctrines to confirm the connection of language and external evidence. So, he refuses depend on Intuition as it depends on remembering to confirm knowledge.
Criticism in timothy Williamson is clear in his determining knowing especially his critique to subjective belief by activating counterfactual role of skepticism to assert knowledge and suspending belief.
So that, this research divided into five chapters. Chapter one which title is "philosophical tendency in Timothy Williamson" talks about Timothy Williamson’s life and philosophical publications that show his ideological development and most philosophical affects by analyzing his publications and demonstrating his Theoretical, excremental and critical foundations.
Chapter two whose title "belief and subjective knowledge" discuss the natural of belief in knowing and its metaphysical foundations. It also argues the idea of dependent and independent mind. And it explains the difference between conceptual and metaphysical belief.
Cognitive structure in Williamson's doctrine is the title of chapter three that discuses formative factors in knowledge and determines the concepts that have relation with knowledge as: evidence, assertion and action. It confirms also the important of position to get knowledge.
Chapter four "the relation between knowledge and action" defines that relation by searching in the natural of relation between mind and will. It also discuses ontological theories of action and the relation between personal identity and
action.
Chapter five that title is" Method of Epistemology in Timothy Williamson" discuses the natural of epistemological method by explaining the relation between knowledge and epistemology and demonstrating examples about statements of epistemological method and statements of suspending belief. It also shows the principle of skepticism.
process? , how can Williamson reach to Realistic Philosophy by his concept of belief? How could this concept help in presenting new metaphysics differ from Aristotle and Kant ones? , how can he explain the relation between belief, knowledge, language?
Williamson start to present concept of belief according to its content so , he divided it to three kinds as : pure belief that doesn’t need external world to confirm it , true belief that its content is external objects and justified true belief that its content external objects and depend on some of arguments or mental reasons .
But Williamson sees that however belief is mental state, it isn’t knowledge because losing most important condition that is external evidence. And By Timothy Williamson’s concept of rationality the belief become internal process and it considers main and necessary stage for reaching to all possible knowledge. This belief may be become knowledge when its content is state of …show more content…
knowledge.
Williamson refuses all metaphysical thoughts point to separation of subject form reality. So, he presents a new vision that decides primacy and necessity of objective reality instead of metaphysical thought that refers to subjective thinking. Therefore, experiment became prior condition for knowledge. Thus, Williamson moved metaphysical concepts as: necessary and a prior to reality.
That explains how Williamson understands belief in borders of knowing linguistically. He refuses broad belief statements and linguistic vagueness and its unlimited natural in some Linguistic doctrines to confirm the connection of language and external evidence. So, he refuses depend on Intuition as it depends on remembering to confirm knowledge.
Criticism in timothy Williamson is clear in his determining knowing especially his critique to subjective belief by activating counterfactual role of skepticism to assert knowledge and suspending belief.
So that, this research divided into five chapters. Chapter one which title is "philosophical tendency in Timothy Williamson" talks about Timothy Williamson’s life and philosophical publications that show his ideological development and most philosophical affects by analyzing his publications and demonstrating his Theoretical, excremental and critical foundations.
Chapter two whose title "belief and subjective knowledge" discuss the natural of belief in knowing and its metaphysical foundations. It also argues the idea of dependent and independent mind. And it explains the difference between conceptual and metaphysical belief.
Cognitive structure in Williamson's doctrine is the title of chapter three that discuses formative factors in knowledge and determines the concepts that have relation with knowledge as: evidence, assertion and action. It confirms also the important of position to get knowledge.
Chapter four "the relation between knowledge and action" defines that relation by searching in the natural of relation between mind and will. It also discuses ontological theories of action and the relation between personal identity and
action.
Chapter five that title is" Method of Epistemology in Timothy Williamson" discuses the natural of epistemological method by explaining the relation between knowledge and epistemology and demonstrating examples about statements of epistemological method and statements of suspending belief. It also shows the principle of skepticism.