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Know How (Paperback)
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Know How (Paperback)
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The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the
world. In this book, Jason Stanley argues that knowing how to do
something amounts to knowing a truth about the world. When you
learned how to swim, what happened is that you learned some truths
about swimming. Knowledge of these truths is what gave you
knowledge of how to swim. Something similar occurred with every
other activity that you now know how to do, such as riding a
bicycle or cooking a meal. Of course, when you learned how to swim,
you didn't learn just any truth about swimming. You learned a
special kind of truth about swimming, one that answers the
question, 'How could you swim?' Know How develops an account of the
kinds of answers to questions, knowledge of which explains skilled
action. Drawing on work in epistemology, philosophy of mind,
ethics, action theory, philosophy of language, linguistic
semantics, and cognitive neuroscience, Stanley presents a powerful
case that it is our success as inquirers that explains our capacity
for skilful engagement with the world.
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