Knowing-how: linguistics and cognitive science

Author: Brown Jessica A.  

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISSN: 0003-2638

Source: Analysis, Vol.73, Iss.2, 2013-04, pp. : 220-227

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Abstract

Stanley and Williamson have defended the intellectualist thesis that knowing-how is a subspecies of knowing-that by appeal to the syntax and semantics of ascriptions of knowing-how. Critics have objected that this way of defending intellectualism places undue weight on linguistic considerations and fails to give sufficient attention to empirical considerations from the scientific study of the mind. In this article, I examine and reject Stanleys recent attempt to answer the critics.