Skill in Epistemology
Carlotta Pavese,
PhilPapers,
Aug 11, 2016
Carlotta Pavese has authored a couple of decent papers on the notion of knowing as a skill (Skill and Knowledge, Skill and Know-How) forthcoming in Philosophy Compass and located in PhilPapers. They won't transform your understanding of knowledge, but they raise questions around what might be called the 'intellectualization' of a skill. For example, we say Robin Hood (a good archer) hit the target because he did the proper things, while the Sheriff of Nottingham (a poor archer) hit the target only because of luck. The enumeration of 'the proper things' is an 'intellectualization', and may or may not actually explain why Robin Hood hit the target. There are many ways to acquire and instantiate a skill, and indeed, there are skills where we could not possibly 'know how' - perceptual skills, for example. So if knowing is a skill, what does this tell us about knowing? Image: from Google Images, derived and corrupted from here.
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