Know-how as Competence: A Rylean Responsibilist Account (Studies in Theoretical Philosophy) - Softcover

Löwenstein, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3465038800 ISBN 13: 9783465038801

Publisher: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 2016

Synopsis

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 the facts right, but also their acts right. 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 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 is propositional 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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About the Author

David Lowenstein lehrt Philosophie an der Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat Munster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3465038800
• ISBN 13: 9783465038801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320