Knowing What to Do

Noûs (forthcoming)
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Abstract

Much has been written on whether practical knowledge (knowledge-how) reduces to propositional knowledge (knowledge-that). Less attention has been paid to what we call deliberative knowledge (knowledge-to), i.e., knowledge ascriptions embedding other infinitival questions, like _where to meet_, _when to leave_, and _what to bring_. We offer an analysis of knowledge-to and argue on its basis that, regardless of whether knowledge-how reduces to knowledge-that, no such reduction of knowledge-to is forthcoming. Knowledge-to, unlike knowledge-that and knowledge-how, requires the agent to have formed certain conditional intentions. We discuss the philosophical implications for knowledge-how, deliberative questions, and virtue.

Author Profiles

Ethan Jerzak
National University of Singapore
Alexander W. Kocurek
Cornell University

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