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Roessler, Johannes (2022) Practical knowledge and testimony. In: Teichmann, Roger, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 72-88. ISBN 9780190887353
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Abstract
Statements purporting to convey practical knowledge in Anscombe's sense are subject to two distinctive kinds of error: errors in performance and (less familiarly, but no less importantly) errors of practical judgement. I argue that reflection on these kinds of errors sheds light both on the nature of practical knowledge and on the status of Anscombe's account of it. Briefly: practical knowledge is knowledge we ordinarily find intelligible (partly) in the light of the agent's non-defective exercise of practical judgement. And Anscombe's account is not primarily designed to make practical knowledge intelligible to philosophers but to make explicit how such knowledge is seen as intelligible — and claims to such knowledge are seen to be justifiable — by those who are engaged in the practice of sharing it. I go on to consider how this interpretation bears on the disagreement between Anscombe's view and what she calls a 'contemplative' conception of knowledge.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret), Act (Philosophy), Intentionality (Philosophy), Knowledge, Theory of , Testimony (Theory of knowledge) , Realism | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||
ISBN: | 9780190887353 | ||||
Book Title: | The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe | ||||
Editor: | Teichmann, Roger | ||||
Official Date: | 18 August 2022 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 72-88 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190887353.001.0001 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Roessler, Johannes, 'Practical Knowledge and Testimony', in Roger Teichmann (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe, Oxford Handbooks (2022; Oxford Academic), pp. 72-88 reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190887353.013.10. | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 September 2022 |
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