ABSTRACT
Embodied knowledge is a type of knowledge, in contrast to propositional, skill-based or dispositional knowledge, where the body of the person is the primary medium for action, for example, kicking a football in the right way. A person can have a good understanding of what it might mean to kick a football, knows how to kick a football, is dispositionally inclined to kick a football in the correct way, but is still not a good footballer. The reason for this is that this form of embodied knowledge requires the body, and not the mind, to be the knowing subject, even if that person has acquired the relevant propositional, skill-based and dispositional knowledge about playing football. Ways of going about the activity of kicking a football are embodied, so that the footballer knows how to act in a given situation.
