A Problem for Autonomous Know-How

Robertson I (2024)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Erkenntnis Springer Science+Business Media B.V

DOI: 10.1007/s10670-024-00849-w

Abstract

In his recent Autonomous Knowledge monograph, J. Adam Carter develops a non-standard anti-intellectualist account of know-how. On this account, an agent manifesting know-how necessarily involves her exhibiting a particular kind of cognitive grasp of the mechanism by which she performs her action. Carter considers a potential problem for his new anti-intellectualism: namely, whether it precludes less cognitively sophisticated agents from knowing how. In this discussion piece, I argue that his attempts to assuage such concerns—by appeal to work by Duncan Pritchard—fails to address the problem.

Authors with CRIS profile

Ian Robertson Lehrstuhl für Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur)

How to cite

APA:

Robertson, I. (2024). A Problem for Autonomous Know-How. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00849-w

MLA:

Robertson, Ian. "A Problem for Autonomous Know-How." Erkenntnis (2024).

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