Intellectual skill and the Rylean regress
Abstract
Intelligent activity requires the use of various intellectual skills. While these skills are connected to knowledge, they should not be identified with knowledge. There are realistic examples where the skills in question come apart from knowledge. That is, there are realistic cases of knowledge without skill, and of skill without knowledge. Whether a person is intelligent depends, in part, on whether they have these skills. Whether a particular action is intelligent depends, in part, on whether it was produced by an exercise of skill. These claims promote a picture of intelligence that is in tension with a strongly intellectualist picture, though they are not in tension with a number of prominent claims recently made by intellectualists.
Citation
Weatherson , B J 2017 , ' Intellectual skill and the Rylean regress ' , The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 67 , no. 267 , pp. 370-386 . https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqw051
Publication
The Philosophical Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0031-8094Type
Journal article
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