Practical knowledge

Ethics 118 (3):388-409 (2008)
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Abstract

Argues that we know without observation or inference at least some of what we are doing intentionally and that this possibility must be explained in terms of knowledge-how. It is a consequence of the argument that knowing how to do something cannot be identified with knowledge of a proposition.

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Kieran Setiya
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