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Knowing How
Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Edited by John Bengson and Edited by Marc A. Moffett
416 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-538936-4
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Hardback
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16 February 2012
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- All essays are previously unpublished and are written by leading figures in contemporary philosophy and linguistics.
- Covers a broad range of topics dealing with tacit and procedural knowledge, skill and representation, expertise, intelligence and intelligent action, the nature of ability, the syntax and semantics of embedded questions, the mind-body problem, the connection between knowledge and understanding, and the relation between theory and practice.
- Contains interdisciplinary articles discussing recent empirical research (e.g., the psychology of skill) and state of the art linguistic theory (e.g., Construction Grammar).
- Several essays discuss Ryle's legacy and explore the notion of practical knowledge in Greek philosophy, tracing the origins of the contemporary debate and inspiring the topic with a historical perspective.
- Addresses implications and applications of the debate on knowing how for virtue epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
- A substantive opening essay illuminates the tate of play in the current debate on knowing how, summarizing the central issues and arguments and placing them in a broader theoretical context.
- Well-suited for upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate (postgraduate) seminars.
- A fascinating resource for philosophers, psychologists, and linguists.
Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists aspiring to understand human cognition and agency. What is the connection between knowing how and knowing that? Is knowledge how simply a type of ability or disposition to act? Is there an irreducibly practical form of knowledge? What is the role of the intellect in intelligent action? This volume contains fifteen state of the art essays by leading figures in philosophy and linguistics that amplify and sharpen the debate between "intellectualists" and
"anti-intellectualists" about mind and action, highlighting the conceptual, empirical, and linguistic issues that motivate and sustain the conflict. The essays also explore various ways in which this debate informs central areas of ethics, philosophy of action, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
Knowing How covers a broad range of topics dealing with tacit and procedural knowledge, the psychology of skill, expertise, intelligence and intelligent action, the nature of ability, the syntax and semantics of embedded questions, the mind-body problem, phenomenal character, epistemic injustice, moral knowledge, the epistemology of logic, linguistic competence, the connection between knowledge and understanding, and the
relation between theory and practice.
This is the book on knowing how-an invaluable resource for philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and others concerned with knowledge, mind, and action.Readership: Philosophers (mainly epistemologists, philosophers of mind and cognitive science, and philosophers of action, but also moral theorists, philosophers of language, and others) as well as psychologists, linguists, cognitive scientists, education-theorists.
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Edited by John Bengson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University, and Edited by Marc A. Moffett, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming John Bengson is currently a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the Australian National University and Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research is focused on issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action.
Marc A. Moffett is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Wyoming. His research is focused on issues in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
The State of Play
1. Two Conceptions of Mind and Action: Knowing How and the Philosophical Theory of Intelligence, John Bengson and Marc A. Moffett
Part I Ryle's Legacy
2. Rylean Arguments: Ancient and Modern, Paul F. Snowdon
3. Ryle's Knowing How and Knowing How to Act , Jennifer Hornsby
Part II Philosophical Considerations
4. Practical Expertise, Julia Annas
5. Knowing How Without Knowing That, Yuri Cath
6. Knowledge How: A Unified Account, Berit Brogaard
7. Non-propositional Intellectualism, John Bengson and Marc A. Moffett
8. Ideology and the Third Realm (Or, a Short Essay on Knowing How to Philosophize), Alva Noë
Part III The Linguistic Perspective
9. How to Resolve How To, Jonathan Ginzburg
10. Knowing How and Knowing Answers, David Braun
11. Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction, Laura A. Michaelis
Part IV Implications and Applications: The Broader
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