Know-how as Competence

A Rylean Responsibilist Account
2017
ISBN: 978-3-465-03880-1
Verlag: Klostermann Vittorio GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 330 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy

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.

Zielgruppe

Philosophen

Autoren/Hrsg.

Löwenstein, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Über Autor(innen)

Löwenstein, David
David Löwenstein lehrt Philosophie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.