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Know-how as Competence

A Rylean Responsibilist Account
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 01.04.2017

Summary

What does it mean to know how to do something? This book develops a comprehensive account of know-how, a crucial epistemic goal for all who care about getting things right, not only with respect to the facts, but also with respect to practice. It proposes a novel interpretation of the seminal work of Gilbert Ryle, according to which know-how is a competence, a complex ability to do well in an activity in virtue of guidance by an understanding of what it takes to do so. This idea is developed into a full-fledged account, Rylean responsibilism, which understands know-how in terms of the normative guidance and responsible control of one's acts. Within the complex current debate about know-how, this view occupies a middle ground position between the intellectualist claim that know-how just is propositional or objectual knowledge and the anti-intellectualist claim that know-how just is ability. In genuine know-how, practical ability and guiding intellect are both necessary, but essentially intertwined.

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Bibliographic data

Publication year
2017
Publication date
01.04.2017
ISBN-Print
978-3-465-03880-1
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-13880-8
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Studies in Theoretical Philosophy
Volume
4
Language
English
Pages
330
Product type
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Table of contents

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  1. Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages i - xii Download chapter (PDF)
  2. IntroductionPages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Chapter 1: Ryle on Know-how and Intelligence Download chapter (PDF)
    2. Chapter 2: Ryle on Intelligence and Intellect Download chapter (PDF)
    3. Chapter 3: Exercising Know-how Download chapter (PDF)
    4. Chapter 4: Intellectual Guidance Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Chapter 5: The Practical Nature of Know-how Download chapter (PDF)
    2. Chapter 6: The Cognitive Nature of Know-how Download chapter (PDF)
    3. Chapter 7: On 'Knows how to' Download chapter (PDF)
    4. Chapter 8: From Language to Intellectualism Download chapter (PDF)
    5. Chapter 9: Intellectualism in Practice Download chapter (PDF)
  5. ConclusionPages 293 - 296 Download chapter (PDF)
  6. BibliographyPages 297 - 316 Download chapter (PDF)
  7. Index of CasesPages 317 - 318 Download chapter (PDF)
  8. Index of PersonsPages 319 - 324 Download chapter (PDF)
  9. Index of SubjectsPages 325 - 330 Download chapter (PDF)

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