The debate over the nature of knowledge has long contended with the distinction between theoretical understanding (knowing that) and the capacity to perform tasks (knowing how). This research topic ...

Synthese, Vol. 194, No. 2, Special Issue on A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON (February 2017), pp. 511-530 (20 pages) I argue that the intellectualist account of knowledge-how, ...

Cardiff Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Knowledge can take many forms. There is “knowledge by acquaintance”, as in knowing a person or place. There is ...

The current Nobel Prize in Economics has been given to three economists — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt — who have studied the role of technological change and creative destruction in ...