Ian Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 256357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8492-2739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Skills and savoir-faire: Might anti-intellectualism suffice
An increasingly popular objection to anti-intellectualism about know-how is that there are clear cases where an agent having the dispositional ability to w does not suffice for her knowing how to w.Recently, Adam Carter has argued that anti-intellectualism can only rise to meet this sufficiency objection if it imposes additional constraints on know-how.He develops a revisionary antiintellectualism, on which knowing how to w not only entails that …
A Problem for Autonomous Know-How
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 h…
AI, Trust and Reliability
Baron claims that we can, given a sound inductive basis, appropriately trust unexplainable AI systems. Fan disagrees and claims that the opacity of these systems disqualifies them as appropriate objects of trust. In this response, I argue that Baron’s case for trusting unexplainable AI systems is stronger than Fan holds. Along the way, I suggest some implications for thinking about trusting AI systems
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism
On the need for a global AI ethics
Against intellectualism about skill
This paper will argue that intellectualism about skill—the contention that skilled performance is without exception guided by proposition knowledge—is fundamentally flawed. It exposes that intellectualists about skill run into intractable theoretical problems in explicating a role for their novel theoretical conceit of practical modes of presentation. It then examines a proposed solution by Carlotta Pavese which seeks to identify practical modes …
The unbearable rightness of seeing? Conceptualism, enactivism, and skilled engagement
Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Woylie (Bettongia penicillata)
Preferences for deep-surface learning: A vocational education case study using a multimedia assessment activity
This research tests the proposition that the integration of a multimedia assessment activity into a Diploma of Events Management program promotes a deep learning approach. Firstly, learners' preferences for deep or surface learning were evaluated using the revised two-factor Study Process Questionnaire. Secondly, after completion of an assessment exercise comprising a multimedia presentation with digital images and oral commentary, the respondent…
Learners' attitudes to wiki technology in problem based, blended learning for vocational teacher education
It would be difficult to argue that the use of online technology to support teaching and learning has not undergone significant change in the last two decades. Recently, with the promotion of social software technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and virtual classrooms, we have seen the emergence of the idea of e-learning 2.0. That is, the use of online technology to support communication, collaboration and knowledge building which are consi…
Factors influencing vocational teacher's use of online functionalities in Australia
Robertson (2006b) surveyed Australian vocational teachers to propose that the criteria of newness, complexity, compatibility and locus of control are influential in shaping the frequency of online functionality use. The current paper tests and further refines this proposition by comparing the likelihood that online functionalities will be used at least monthly by vocational teachers whose delivery approaches are primarily face to face and non-fac…
Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages
Addresses a range of issues in Caribbean linguistics. This volume interrogates the interpretations of the history of our Caribbean languages, the use of these languages for literary expression and their role in the democratization of education and the development of Caribbean people
Obituary
Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter: Pope Paul II and Bologna
Berry productivity and molluscicidal saponin yield ofPhytolacca Dodecandra (Phytolaccaceae) under different sunlight, watering and nutrient conditions
Computer assistance in the management of memory and cognitive impairment
Some patterns of language use in the period of transition from Dutch to British rule in the Guiana colonies
Article Some patterns of language use in the period of transition from Dutch to British rule in the Guiana colonies was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1990, issue 85)
The Misuse of Alcohol: Crucial Issues in Dependence, Treatment, and Prevention
Five Introductory Sociology Textbooks
Race and Politics in South Africa
Sociology
Race and Politics in South Africa
Race and Politics in South Africa
Physical Education with an Aboriginal Perspective
Aboriginal children, like all others, have a love and enthusiasm for physical activity in the form of play, games and sport. For a variety of reasons, this enthusiasm does not always carry over into the other areas of the school program. Mitchell's (1973) comments are quite commonplace - and they apply not only in Aboriginal schools: He was an alert lad with well above average intelligence, but apart from sport and a partiality for listening to g…
Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum
Book Reviews Anselm : Fides Quaerens Intellectum. By Karl Barth. Translated by Ian Robertson. (London : S.C.M. Press. 1960. Pp. 179. Price 25s). On the Eternal in Man. By Max Scheler. Translated by Bernard Noble. (London : S.C.M. Press. 1960. Pp. 480. Price 63s). G. F. Woods G. F. Woods Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 49, October 1962, Pages 380–381, https://do…
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism
On the need for a global AI ethics
Against intellectualism about skill
This paper will argue that intellectualism about skill—the contention that skilled performance is without exception guided by proposition knowledge—is fundamentally flawed. It exposes that intellectualists about skill run into intractable theoretical problems in explicating a role for their novel theoretical conceit of practical modes of presentation. It then examines a proposed solution by Carlotta Pavese which seeks to identify practical modes …
The unbearable rightness of seeing? Conceptualism, enactivism, and skilled engagement
Race and Politics in South Africa
Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum
Book Reviews Anselm : Fides Quaerens Intellectum. By Karl Barth. Translated by Ian Robertson. (London : S.C.M. Press. 1960. Pp. 179. Price 25s). On the Eternal in Man. By Max Scheler. Translated by Bernard Noble. (London : S.C.M. Press. 1960. Pp. 480. Price 63s). G. F. Woods G. F. Woods Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 49, October 1962, Pages 380–381, https://do…
Physical Education with an Aboriginal Perspective
Aboriginal children, like all others, have a love and enthusiasm for physical activity in the form of play, games and sport. For a variety of reasons, this enthusiasm does not always carry over into the other areas of the school program. Mitchell's (1973) comments are quite commonplace - and they apply not only in Aboriginal schools: He was an alert lad with well above average intelligence, but apart from sport and a partiality for listening to g…
Sociology
Race and Politics in South Africa
Race and Politics in South Africa
Race and Politics in South Africa
Five Introductory Sociology Textbooks
The Misuse of Alcohol: Crucial Issues in Dependence, Treatment, and Prevention
Some patterns of language use in the period of transition from Dutch to British rule in the Guiana colonies
Article Some patterns of language use in the period of transition from Dutch to British rule in the Guiana colonies was published on January 1, 1990 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1990, issue 85)
Computer assistance in the management of memory and cognitive impairment
Berry productivity and molluscicidal saponin yield ofPhytolacca Dodecandra (Phytolaccaceae) under different sunlight, watering and nutrient conditions
Tyranny under the Mantle of St Peter: Pope Paul II and Bologna
Obituary
Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages
Addresses a range of issues in Caribbean linguistics. This volume interrogates the interpretations of the history of our Caribbean languages, the use of these languages for literary expression and their role in the democratization of education and the development of Caribbean people
Factors influencing vocational teacher's use of online functionalities in Australia
Robertson (2006b) surveyed Australian vocational teachers to propose that the criteria of newness, complexity, compatibility and locus of control are influential in shaping the frequency of online functionality use. The current paper tests and further refines this proposition by comparing the likelihood that online functionalities will be used at least monthly by vocational teachers whose delivery approaches are primarily face to face and non-fac…
Learners' attitudes to wiki technology in problem based, blended learning for vocational teacher education
It would be difficult to argue that the use of online technology to support teaching and learning has not undergone significant change in the last two decades. Recently, with the promotion of social software technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and virtual classrooms, we have seen the emergence of the idea of e-learning 2.0. That is, the use of online technology to support communication, collaboration and knowledge building which are consi…
Preferences for deep-surface learning: A vocational education case study using a multimedia assessment activity
This research tests the proposition that the integration of a multimedia assessment activity into a Diploma of Events Management program promotes a deep learning approach. Firstly, learners' preferences for deep or surface learning were evaluated using the revised two-factor Study Process Questionnaire. Secondly, after completion of an assessment exercise comprising a multimedia presentation with digital images and oral commentary, the respondent…
Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Woylie (Bettongia penicillata)
Against intellectualism about skill
This paper will argue that intellectualism about skill—the contention that skilled performance is without exception guided by proposition knowledge—is fundamentally flawed. It exposes that intellectualists about skill run into intractable theoretical problems in explicating a role for their novel theoretical conceit of practical modes of presentation. It then examines a proposed solution by Carlotta Pavese which seeks to identify practical modes …
The unbearable rightness of seeing? Conceptualism, enactivism, and skilled engagement
On the need for a global AI ethics
A Problem for Autonomous Know-How
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 h…
AI, Trust and Reliability
Baron claims that we can, given a sound inductive basis, appropriately trust unexplainable AI systems. Fan disagrees and claims that the opacity of these systems disqualifies them as appropriate objects of trust. In this response, I argue that Baron’s case for trusting unexplainable AI systems is stronger than Fan holds. Along the way, I suggest some implications for thinking about trusting AI systems
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism
Skills and savoir-faire: Might anti-intellectualism suffice
An increasingly popular objection to anti-intellectualism about know-how is that there are clear cases where an agent having the dispositional ability to w does not suffice for her knowing how to w.Recently, Adam Carter has argued that anti-intellectualism can only rise to meet this sufficiency objection if it imposes additional constraints on know-how.He develops a revisionary antiintellectualism, on which knowing how to w not only entails that …
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