Santorio, P (2016) Nonfactual Know-How and the Boundaries of Semantics. The Philosophical Review, 125 (1). pp. 35-82. ISSN 0031-8108
Abstract
Know-how and expressivism are usually regarded as disjoint topics, belonging to distant areas of philosophy. This paper argues that, despite obvious differences, the two debates have important similarities. In particular, semantic and conceptual tools developed by expressivists can be exported to the know-how debate. On the one hand, some of the expressivists' semantic resources can be used to deflect Stanley and Williamson's influential argument for factualism about know-how: the claim that knowing how to do something consists in knowing a fact. On the other, expressivism provides the resources to formulate a nonfactualist account of know-how. On this account, know-how has a kind of nonpropositional content and plays the role of guiding performance of action, rather than recording information from the environment.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 by Cornell University. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in The Philosophical Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Know-how; expressivism; semantics; infinitival questions; nonpropositional attitudes |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2015 10:44 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2020 09:43 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3321721 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1215/00318108-3321721 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87502 |