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Talk by Adam Carter (Edinburgh)
Title: "Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism” Abstract: Reductive intellectualists (e.g., Stanley & Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011a; 2011b) hold that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Anti-intellectualists (e.g., Ryle 1949; 1945) reject this reduction and identify knowledge-how with ability possession. In this talk, I want to challenge reductive intellectualism on two separate grounds. Firstly, I want to suggest that anti-intellectualism is in fact in much better shape than many contemporary intellectualists have supposed. In particular, I’ll suggest that recent alleged counterexamples by Bengson & Moffett (2011) to the effect that ability possession is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge-how fail. Secondly, I’ll build on earlier work from Carter & Pritchard (2015) to offer some new reasons why reductive intellectualism generates the wrong results in cases of epistemic luck.
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- 50-52 College Bounds room CB202
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Philosophy