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
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy
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
Dates:	Date Event 18 August 2022 Published
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Status:	Not Peer Reviewed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.
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Date of first compliant deposit:	20 September 2022

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