Habit: A Rylean Conception

Ideology and Knowledge-How: A Rylean Perspective1

In work culminating in Know How (2009), Jason Stanley argues, against Gilbert Ryle, that knowledge-how is a species of knowledge-that. In How Propaganda Works (2015), Stanley portrays this work as undermining a “flawed ideology” supporting elitist valuations of intellectual work and workers. However, the link between Stanley’s two philosophical projects is weak. Ryle’s distinction between knowl...

Toward a new conception of habit and self-control in adolescent maturation

Neuropsychology shows us that adolescent maturation involves three areas: ejective functions, personal identity, and socialization and this maturation is not reached without emotion regulation. If we look at what this emotion regulation is made up of, psychology will tell us motivation, stress, resilience, emotional cognition, self-control, and habits are fields in which emotion regulation is u...

The Aristotelian conception of habit and its contribution to human neuroscience

The notion of habit used in neuroscience is an inheritance from a particular theoretical origin, whose main source is William James. Thus, habits have been characterized as rigid, automatic, unconscious, and opposed to goal-directed actions. This analysis leaves unexplained several aspects of human behavior and cognition where habits are of great importance. We intend to demonstrate the utility...

Turnout as a Habit

It is conventional to speak of voting as ‘‘habitual.’’ But what does this mean? In psychology, habits are cognitive associations between repeated responses and stable features of the performance context. Thus, ‘‘turnout habit’’ is best measured by an index of repeated behavior and a consistent performance setting. Once habit associations form, the response can be cued even in the absence of sup...

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers