KNOWLEDGE-HOW, ABILITY, AND COUNTERFACTUAL SUCCESS. A STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXV, 2, 2020 (p. 51 – 66)en-US
dc.creatorLUDUŞAN, Adrian
dc.date2020-08-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:39:05Z
dc.descriptionThe paper is thematically divided into two parts. In the first part, we will address the arguments raised against the anti-intellectualist thesis that ability is a necessary condition for knowledge-how, present Katherine Hawley’s proposed generic solution based on counterfactual success in order to overcome these arguments, followed by an analysis of Bengson & Moffett’s counterargument to Hawley’s counterfactual success thesis [CST]. We will conclude that Bengson & Moffett’s counterargument misses its target, so that, as far as we are concerned, Katherine Hawley’s proposal, namely CST, is safe. In the second part of the paper, we will provide a statistical interpretation of one of Hawley’s more specific proposals, counterfactual success with occasional failure [CSTF], and assess a couple of philosophically challenging consequences that follow from such an interpretation.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2682
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2020.2.03
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1001
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2682/2582
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 65, No. 2, August 2020; 51 – 66en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2020.2
dc.subjectknow-how, ability, counterfactual success, intellectualism, anti-intellectualism, null hypothesis significance testing, effect sizeen-US
dc.titleKNOWLEDGE-HOW, ABILITY, AND COUNTERFACTUAL SUCCESS. A STATISTICAL INTERPRETATIONen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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