Intellectual Skill and the Rylean Regress

Bibliographic Data

ID4351976
AuthorsBrian Weatherson (0000-0002-0830-141X, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pagespqw051
Publication date2016-07-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqw051
OpenAlexW2492010488
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited26

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.

Action (physics) · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Knowledge management · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology

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