Hardcover. With jacket. xiv+401pp. Near fine condition. Jacket shows moderate shelfwear. Some dust along the top edge. One of the top corners slightly pressed. Pages are crisp and entirely free of markings. Boards perfect, as are the head and tail of the spine. Bound in red paper, with stamped gold lettering to the spine. (If you order this from outside the United States, we are likely to request an additional payment to help cover the postage.) Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers.

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Title

Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

ISBN 10

0195389360

ISBN 13

9780195389364

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Philosophy

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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.

About the Author

John Bengson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Marc A. Moffett is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso.

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