In support of anti-intellectualism |
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Authors: | Victor Kumar |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Social Sciences Bldg. Rm. 213, P.O. Box 210027, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027, USA |
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Abstract: | Intellectualist theories attempt to assimilate know how to propositional knowledge and, in so doing, fail to properly explain
the close relation know how bears to action. I develop here an anti-intellectualist theory that is warranted, I argue, because
it best accounts for the difference between know how and mere “armchair knowledge.” Know how is a mental state characterized
by a certain world-to-mind direction of fit (though it is non-motivational) and attendant functional role. It is essential
of know how, but not propositional knowledge, that it makes possible performance errors and has the functional role of guiding
action. The theory is attractive, in part, because it allows for propositional, non-propositional and perhaps even non-representational
varieties of know how. |
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