Abstract
In this paper I develop three different arguments against the thesis that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Knowledge-that is widely thought to be subject to an anti-luck condition, a justified or warranted belief condition, and a belief condition, respectively. The arguments I give suggest that if either of these standard assumptions is correct then knowledge-how is not a kind of knowledge-that. In closing I identify a possible alternative to the standard Rylean and Intellectualist accounts of knowledge-how. This alternative shows how even if the arguments given here succeed it might still be reasonable to hold that knowing how to do something is a matter of standing in an intentional relation to a proposition other than the knowledge-that relation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Knowing How |
Subtitle of host publication | Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action |
Editors | John Bengson, Marc A. Moffett |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 113 |
Number of pages | 135 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780195389364 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |