Nath, Oushinar;
(2024)
Wisdom: A Knowledge First Perspective.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
My dissertation explores the relationship that wisdom has to knowledge. Towards this, throughout the chapters, I identify certain features that are characteristic of wisdom – e.g., wise agents are good advice givers, open-minded, reflective, unbiased etc – and discuss in what ways knowledge and similar themes central to epistemology can help explain those characteristics of wisdom. Accordingly, I have termed my account of wisdom ‘knowledge first’. It is knowledge first in the sense that knowledge is explanatorily fundamental in explaining the nature of wisdom. More specifically, I defend a view that I call epistemic essentialism which claims that, inter alia, knowledge necessarily consists of the reductive base of wisdom. Given this, the knowledge first picture of wisdom I shall develop in my dissertation is something as follows. Firstly, I shall demonstrate that knowledge is necessary for wisdom in two different forms – wisdom taken as a trait of character, and wisdom taken as a property of actions. Secondly, I shall use this intimate relationship between wisdom and knowledge to shed light on knowledge itself by demonstrating that wisdom is an interesting case of KK failure. Finally, given that wisdom is a case of KK failure, a puzzle concerning wisdom arises related to it being a stable disposition of character. I shall attempt to solve this puzzle by appealing to the idea of skilful reflection – which again is related to knowledge – which in turn sheds new light on wisdom’s relationship to knowledge.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Wisdom: A Knowledge First Perspective |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197372 |
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