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This doctoral thesis is about the cognitive basis of skilled performance. More specifically, it questions what sort of understanding, or grasp, skilled performers have of the means and methods by which they perform their impressive endeavors. The thesis concludes that skilled action does not entail conceptual grasp of method on the part of the agent. In advancing its case for this conclusion, it presents a series of arguments in its various chapters in opposition to intellectualism, certain forms of anti-intellectualism, and other influential positions in the philosophy of mind. In addition, b...

An increasingly popular objection to anti-intellectualism about know-how is that there are clear cases where an agent having the dispositional ability to φ does not suffice for her knowing how to φ. Recently, Adam Carter has argued that anti-intellectualism can only rise to meet this sufficiency objection if it imposes additional constraints on know-how. He develops a revisionary anti-intellectualism, on which knowing how to φ not only entails that the agent possesses a reliable ability to φ, but also that she is equipped with certain kind of intellectual grasp of the method by which she i...

This paper will argue that intellectualism about skill—the contention that skilled performance is without exception guided by proposition knowledge—is fundamentally flawed. It exposes that intellectualists about skill run into intractable theoretical problems in explicating a role for their novel theoretical conceit of practical modes of presentation. It then examines a proposed solution by Carlotta Pavese which seeks to identify practical modes of presentation with motor representations that guide skilled sensorimotor action. We argue that this proposed identification is problematic on em...

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