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Epistemology Workshop Philosophy Discipline School of History and Philosophy, UNSW Epistemology enlarged: Perspectives on knowing-how Are human actions guided by knowledge, when these actions are what Gilbert Ryle would have called intelligent ones? The idea that they are so guided is what Ryle named intellectualism. It is also what, famously, he discarded. Knowing-that and knowing-how, he concluded, are metaphysically distinct because intellectualism is false. People know truths quite differently to how they know how to do things. Well, that was Ryle's view. But was he right? Is intellectualism false? Do we have such different ways of knowing? There are so many related questions with which epistemologists, philosophers of mind, and philosophers of agency are currently engaging. The nature and significance of knowledge-how, in particular, is attracting much philosophical attention at present. This workshop will be an opportunity to experience some of that current surge of philosophical focus upon knowledge-how - its conceptual complications and neighbours, within Western (and also some Chinese) philosophy. Tuesday 12th July 2011 Room 211, Morven Brown Building, University of New South Wales Workshop Program 10.30-11.30 Michaelis Michael "Semantic properties of mental modifications: The role of practice" Kant raised a problem which is still with us-what makes a mental modification have the content it does? In this paper I explore the idea that what gives our mental and linguistic objects have the semantic properties they have is a matter of practice and know how. 12.00-1.00 Stephen Hetherington and Karyn Lai "Practising to know: Practicalism and Confucian philosophy" Practicalism reconceives the nature of knowledge-that, as being a kind of knowledge-how. We ask whether the Confucian Analects suggests some support for practicalism. 3.00-4.00 John Bengson "Know-how and Understanding" The role of conceptions in knowing how to act vis-a-vis their role in action and intelligent action more generally. 4.15-5.15 Wylie Breckenridge "Knowing questions" That knowing how is knowing a question (i.e. to know how to F is to stand in the knowing relation to the question of how to F). Registration Email Karyn Lai: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]%3cmailto:[email protected]>> There is no registration fee. But you will need to contact Karyn Lai to confirm your attendance. Dr Karyn Lai Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Coordinator, Philosophy Discipline Room 326, Morven Brown Building School of History and Philosophy University of New South Wales NSW 2052 Australia Tel: +61-2-9385 1194 Fax: +61-2-9385 1029
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