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Work's Role in Learning How
Author(s) -
Mosdell Matthew
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/theo.12286
Subject(s) - intellectualism , action (physics) , epistemology , work (physics) , action learning , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , cooperative learning , mathematics education , teaching method , mechanical engineering , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
An influential version of intellectualism about knowledge‐how holds that acquiring facts is necessary and sufficient for learning how to do things. I argue that such a view is incompatible with learning to do things through effort and practice, which suggests that intellectualists do not have a coherent way to explain the role of work in our acquisition of knowledge‐how. By way of an alternative, I argue that work serves to establish patterns of thinking that coordinate propositional truths with powers of action.