Workshop Practical knowledge

Joint Research Institute for Science and Society

The Knowledge and Action Lab

 

Workshop

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE

Friday November 27, 2015

 

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

15 Parvis René Descartes, Lyon

Salle de Réunion 1

Bâtiment Buisson, site Descartes

  

OPENING SESSION : 10AM-10.15AM

General Presentation of Workshop : Jean-Michel Roy (ENSL)

                              

FIRST SESSION : 10.15AM-1PM

KNOWING HOW AND KNOWING THAT : THE RELEVANCE OF CURRENT DEBATES TO THE DEFINITON OF COGNITIVE PRAGMATISM

10.15am-11.30am : Pierre Steiner (UTC) & Jean-Michel Roy (ENSL) – « From Cognitive Pragmatism to Practical Knowledge ».

11.45am-1pm: Neil Gascoigne, Royal Holloway, University of London – « Tacit Knowledge, Knowledge-How, and Luck : Towards a ‘Mitigated’ Anti-Intellectualism ».

SECOND SESSION : 2.30PM-5.45PM

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

  2.30pm-3.45pm: Pierre Saint-Germier, University of Genève – « What Mary couldn’t do: know-how, abilities and phenomenal knowledge ».

 4pm-5.15pm: Roman Madzia, University of Koblenz-Landau – « Social Behaviorism Revisited: Practical Knowledge and the Enkinaesthetic Origins of Language ».

  

General Discussion : 5.15pm – 5.45 pm