Linguistique de l’écrit

Revue internationale en libre accès

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234764

Embodied savoir-faire

knowledge-how requires motor representations

Neil Levy

pp. 511-530

Résumé

I argue that the intellectualist account of knowledge-how, according to which agents have the knowledge-how to (upvarphi ) in virtue of standing in an appropriate relation to a proposition, is only half right. On the composition view defended here, knowledge-how at least typically requires both propositional knowledge and motor representations. Motor representations are not mere dispositions to behavior (so the older dispositionalist view isn’t even half right) because they have representational content, and they play a central role in realizing the intelligence in knowledge-how. But since motor representations are not propositional, propositional knowledge is not sufficient for knowledge-how.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Dawid Richard (2017) A philosophical look at the discovery of the Higgs boson. Synthese 194 (2).

Pages: 511-530

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0956-1

Citation complète:

Levy Neil, 2017, Embodied savoir-faire: knowledge-how requires motor representations. Synthese 194 (2), A philosophical look at the discovery of the Higgs boson, 511-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0956-1.