Gloria Andrada and Adam J. Carter—"Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism," 2025—use the Mind-Technology problem (MTP) framework (Clowes, Gärtner, and Hipólito 2021) as a basis for theorizing about skills and know-how. More specifically, they focus on anti-intellectualism about know-how, so the view that S knows how to do X in virtue of S having the ability to intentionally X. Anti-intellectualism is contrasted with intellectualism about know-how, so the view that S knows how to do X in virtue of knowing that something is the case or knowing some fact (Stanley and Williamson 2011; Bengson and Moffett 2007).

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Letter to the Editor

Congrats to Stijn Rotman for presenting our latest work in collaboration with Gianluca Guglielmo, PhD and Michał Klincewicz at the IDA 2025 Conference in Konstanz.

John H. Flavell is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Flavell is a founder of social cognitive ...