Concept tag
#know-how
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My grandmother knew when rain was coming but couldn’t say how. Did she know? What is reliabilism?
I farm cocoa near Kumasi. My son is at university and sends me articles from his philosophy course. The latest one said that to know something you need a true belief plus a good reason, a "justification". Then it said some philosophers…
Started by Akosua Mensah5 replies201 views -
I make cedar doors. Am I an artist, a craftsman, or is that the wrong question?
I make cedar doors and ceilings in the Andalusian style in Tetouan, as my father did. Tourists photograph my work and call it art. Gallery people, when they come, call it craft, and they say it a little differently. I read recently…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani5 replies176 views -
My father knew which cedar beam would split. He could never say how. Did he know?
I make cedar doors and ceilings in Tetouan, the way my father taught me. When I was a boy he would walk past a stack of beams and tap one with his knuckle and say: not that one, it will split when…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani6 replies270 views -
Dreyfus’s critique of AI has aged better than Searle’s Chinese Room
I want to defend an unfashionable ranking. Of the two classic objections to the idea of thinking machines, the one that has earned its keep is Hubert Dreyfus's, not John Searle's. Searle's argument rests on an intuition about what the man in…
Started by Derek Hollis7 replies279 views