ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between knowing-how and skill, as well as other success-in-action notions such as dispositions and abilities. I offer a new view of knowledge-how that combines elements of both intellectualism and Ryleanism. According to this view, knowing how to perform an action is both a kind of knowing-that (in accord with intellectualist views of knowing-how) and a complex multi-track dispositional state (in accord with Ryle’s view of knowing-how). I argue that this new view—which I call practical attitude intellectualism—offers an attractive set of solutions to various puzzles concerning the connections between knowing-how and abilities and skills to perform intentional actions.
