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The Epistemology of SkillsIn Steup Matthias (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Epistemology. forthcoming.
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Intelligence SocialismOxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind. forthcoming.From artistic performances in the visual arts and in music to motor control in gymnastics, from tool use to chess and language, humans excel in a variety of skills. On the plausible assumption that skillful behavior is a visible manifestation of intelligence, a theory of intelligence—whether human or not—should be informed by a theory of skills. More controversial is the question as to whether, in order to theorize about intelligence, we should study certain skills in particular. My target is th…Read more
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Meaning without Gricean IntentionsAnalysis. forthcoming.
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Epistemic Luck, Knowledge-How, and Intentional ActionErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (n/a). 2023.Epistemologists have long believed that epistemic luck undermines propositional knowledge. Action theorists have long believed that agentive luck undermines intentional action. But is there a relationship between agentive luck and epistemic luck? While agentive luck and epistemic luck have been widely thought to be independent phenomena, we argue that agentive luck has an epistemic dimension. We present several thought experiments where epistemic luck seems to undermine both knowledge-how and in…Read more
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Know-How and GradabilityPhilosophical Review 126 (3): 345-383. 2017.Orthodoxy has it that knowledge is absolute—that is, it cannot come in degrees. On the other hand, there seems to be strong evidence for the gradability of know-how. Ascriptions of know-how are gradable, as when we say that one knows in part how to do something, or that one knows how to do something better than somebody else. When coupled with absolutism, the gradability of ascriptions of know-how can be used to mount a powerful argument against intellectualism about know-how—the view that know-…Read more
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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