{"id":2014,"date":"2025-05-01T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:54:03","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2024-25-session-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2024-25-session-21-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2024-25: Session 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Know-How, Action and Proximity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adam Carter (University of Glasgow)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 May 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0Few theses at the intersection of action theory and epistemology have more adherents than the Simple View, according to which, if an agent \u03c6-s intentionally, then she knows how to \u03c6. That view struggles, however, to account for cases of intentional actions performed in novel circumstances, or when facing novel tasks. We propose to reject the Simple View and instead explain the relationship between intentional action and know-how by appeal to\u00a0<em>proximity<\/em>, a relation encoding the extent to which the means for one task (\u03c8) can be co-opted to reliably succeed in another (\u03c6). According to our Proximity View, if an agent \u03c6-s intentionally, then she knows how to \u03c8, where \u03c8 is sufficiently proximal to \u03c6. Not only does the Proximity View explain intentional actions performed when facing novel circumstances or tasks, but it also illuminates both the process of learning by doing and the luck that action\u00a0<em>per se<\/em>\u00a0tolerates.\u00a0(Joint work with Tim Kearl [Flagler College].)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This activity is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT &#8211; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID\/00310\/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa<br \/>\n(https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know-How, Action and Proximity Adam Carter (University of Glasgow) &nbsp; 2 May 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0Few theses at the intersection of action theory and epistemology have more adherents than the Simple View, according to which, if an agent \u03c6-s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}