How to be a capacitist

Synthese. 2023;201(5):169. doi: 10.1007/s11229-023-04143-0. Epub 2023 May 4.

Abstract

Capacitism is the view that capacities come first in epistemological theorising: they are explanatorily basic and key epistemic phenomena are to be analysed in terms of capacities. This paper develops a problem for capacitism and outlines a motivated way of solving it.

Keywords: Capacity; Justification; Knowledge; Knowledge first; Perception; Schellenberg.