Preparing the Ground for an Empirical Theory of Knowing-How

A Reply to Ramiro Glauer

Authors

Andreas Bartels

andreas.bartels @ uni-bonn.de

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität

Bonn, Germany

Mark May

mm @ hsu-hh.de

Helmut-Schmidt-Universität

Hamburg, Germany

Commentator

Ramiro Glauer

ramiro.glauer @ ovgu.de

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität

Magdeburg, Germany

Editors

Thomas Metzinger

metzinger @ uni-mainz.de

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

The commentary gives a clear and instructive summary of our main arguments against both, intellectualist and anti-intellectualist accounts of knowing-how. But the aim of our account is not correctly described as an attempt to give an explanation of certain cognitive capacities that are taken to be expressions of knowledge-how in terms of underlying mental representations. (Glauer this collection, p.10). What we aim at is not an empirical theory of knowing-how, but a framework that would be useful for cognitive scientific research on phenomena of knowing-how.

Keywords

(anti-) intellectualism | Conceptuality | Knowing-how | Knowing-that | Knowledge representation | Propositionality