Zalabardo on the Distinction Between Inferential and Non-Inferential Knowledge

This paper examines the distinction between inferential (IK) and non-inferential knowledge (NIK) that Jose Zalabardo puts forward in his recent book Scepticism and Reliable Belief. The paper argues that the distinction he draws is not satisfactory because (i) instead of capturing a fundamental difference between NIK and IK, it actually entails that both types of knowledge work in fundamentally the same way, and (ii) it permits distorting reconstructions of many cases of NIK as cases of IK.