Technological Knowledge-That As Knowledge-How: a Comment

摘要

Norstrom has argued that contemporary epistemological debates about the conceptual relations between knowledge-that and knowledge-how need to be supplemented by a concept of technological knowledge-with this being a further kind of knowledge. But this paper argues that Norstrom has not shown why technological knowledge-that is so distinctive because Norstrom has not shown that such knowledge cannot be reduced conceptually to a form of knowledge-how. The paper thus applies practicalism (the conceptual reduction of knowledge-that in general to knowledge-how) to the case of technological knowledge-that. Indeed, the paper shows why Norstrom's conception of technological knowledge unintentionally strengthens this proposed form of reduction.