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Technological knowledge-that as knowledge-how

a comment

Stephen Hetherington

pp. 567-572

Abstrakt

Norström has argued that contemporary epistemological debates about the conceptual relations between knowledge-that and knowledge-how need to be supplemented by a concept of technological knowledge—with this being a further kind of knowledge. But this paper argues that Norström has not shown why technological knowledge-that is so distinctive because Norström has not shown that such knowledge cannot be reduced conceptually to a form of knowledge-how. The paper thus applies practicalism (the conceptual reduction of knowledge-that in general to knowledge-how) to the case of technological knowledge-that. Indeed, the paper shows why Norström's conception of technological knowledge unintentionally strengthens this proposed form of reduction.

Publication details

Published in:

(2015) Philosophy & Technology 28 (4).

Seiten: 567-572

DOI: 10.1007/s13347-014-0179-2

Referenz:

Hetherington Stephen (2015) „Technological knowledge-that as knowledge-how: a comment“. Philosophy & Technology 28 (4), 567–572.