Epistemic Luck, Intentional Action, and Knowledge-how
Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)

November 5, 2021, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
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University of Warsaw

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The ALEF research group (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) announces an online talk by Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University) entitled "Epistemic Luck, Intentional Action, and Knowledge-how". The talk is part of the group's regular seminar and takes place on Friday, NOVEMBER 5, 18.00 EST (Eastern European Time). Please write to [email protected] or check our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ALEF-100692348488914) if you want to participate. For more information about ALEF, as well as the schedule for the seminar in the 2021-2022 winter semester, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/alefgroupcluj.


Here is the abstract of the talk:

Epistemologists have long believed that some kind of luck (epistemic luck) can undermine attributions of propositional knowledge (or knowledge-that). Action theorists have long believed that some kind of luck (agentive luck) can undermine attributions of intentional action. What is the relation between these two forms of luck? In my talk I discuss this question and I argue that epistemic luck can undermine both knowledge-how and intentional action, suggesting that agentive luck can have an epistemic dimension. I consider the consequences of my conclusions for the debate on the place for knowledge in a theory of intentional action, the debate about the nature of knowledge-how, and the role of knowledge representation in folk psychology.

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