Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic Kantianism

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Article

Publication Date

2014

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.5840/traddisc2014/20154116

Abstract

Neil Gascoigne and Tim Thornton’s Tacit Knowledge is an attempt to find a place for tacit knowledge as “knowledge” within the limits of analytic epistemology. They do so by reference to Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson’s analysis of the term “way” and by the McDowell-like claim that reference to the tacitly rooted “way” of doing something exhausts the knowledge aspect of tacit knowledge, which preserves the notion of tacit knowledge, while excluding most of Michael Polanyi’s examples, and rendering Hubert Dreyfus’s and John Searle’s accounts irrelevant. This is more a redefinition of terms than an account of tacit knowledge.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, v. 41, issue 1, p. 33-47

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