ABSTRACT
The following debate with Andrew marks one spot of turbulence on an otherwise smooth flight. What is at issue is the relationship between practical and theoretical knowledge. Both of us accept that these two types of knowledge are different in kind; we agree that they interact and we assert that each can advance valid claims to objectivity. The issue between us concerns the more limited question about how practical and theoretical knowledge contribute to one another’s development. It is thus a debate about the process or processes by which objective knowledge develops.
