Platonic know-how and successful action

Identifying Collaboration Know-How from Action Patterns in Distributed Teams

Teams that are distributed through space and time face challenges in terms of coordination which endangers successful collaboration. Coordination of a team’s actions is in focus of this paper since effective coordination is one predictor of team performance. Thus, distributed teams need knowledge on how to effectively coordinate their activities. Research in the domain of collaboration engineer...

legal protection of know how

unlike patent, there are not clear legal rules to protect know how in iranian law, then intellectual property law theories require to afford protection to know haw and its owner. the protection rules may be provided under contractual bases or under law. approaches of legal systems towards the terms and rules of the protection are different. in iranian legal system some protection rules are foun...

How Scientists Know What Babies Know

Propositional knowledge and know-how

This paper is roughly in two parts. The first deals with whether knowhow is constituted by propositional knowledge, as discussed primarily by Gilbert Ryle (1949) The concept of mind. London: Hutchinson, Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson (2001). Knowing how. Journal of Philosophy, 98, pp. 411–444 as well as Stephen Hetherington (2006). How to know that knowledge-that is knowledge-how. In S. H...

How do we know that we know what we know?

How Science Works’ is now the focus of the national science specifications in English schools. This article is a brief introduction to the philosophy of science from the Greeks to the present day that underpins this notion. From September 2006, the emphasis for teaching science at GCSE is on ‘How Science Works’. This focus will also shape the revisions of the AS and A2 specifications from Septe...