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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783465038801
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-465-03880-1
- Verlag: Klostermann Vittorio GmbH
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.04.2017
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2017
- Serie: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy
- Produktform: Kartoniert, KART
- Gewicht: 501 g
- Seiten: 330
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 233 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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- Geisteswissenschaften
- Philosophie
- Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Philosophie
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