While anti-intellectualists tend to identify knowing how with having a certain ability or being able to do something, we are sug- gested by intellectualists to distinguish knowledge from ability to do things; one may be able to do certain actions without knowing how to do them. Re- ally? If there is a basic distinction between “knowing a way to do things with practical MOPS” and “ability”, why not to say that Ryle was confused in over- lapping the conception of “knowing how” and the conception of “being able to”? With these worries, I decided to re-read Engel 2007 to find suggestions on this issue (and to find a justification of my participating to the volume in his honor). And I have found further worries. In this paper I will therefore present some problems raised by reading Engel on “Taking seriously Knowl- edge as a Mental State”.
Between Knowing How and Knowing That
PENCO, CARLO
2014-01-01
Abstract
While anti-intellectualists tend to identify knowing how with having a certain ability or being able to do something, we are sug- gested by intellectualists to distinguish knowledge from ability to do things; one may be able to do certain actions without knowing how to do them. Re- ally? If there is a basic distinction between “knowing a way to do things with practical MOPS” and “ability”, why not to say that Ryle was confused in over- lapping the conception of “knowing how” and the conception of “being able to”? With these worries, I decided to re-read Engel 2007 to find suggestions on this issue (and to find a justification of my participating to the volume in his honor). And I have found further worries. In this paper I will therefore present some problems raised by reading Engel on “Taking seriously Knowl- edge as a Mental State”.
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