Knowing how and knowing when: unpacking public understanding of atmospheric CO2 accumulation

Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Behavior: Knowing When to Walk Away, Knowing When to Run

A new model has been proposed indicating that humans and other animals weigh the metabolic cost of pursuit in deciding how fast to move toward a given reward, providing a powerful framework for understanding behavior.

Knowing What to Imitate and Knowing When You Succeed

If we are to build robots that can imitate the actions of a human instructor, the robotics community must address a variety of issues. In this paper, we examine two of these issues. First, how does the robot know which things it should imitate? Second, how does the robot know when its actions are an adequate imitation of the original? We further describe an on-going research effort to implement...

Knowing how and knowing that : a tale of two ontologies

Outdoor education has traditionally dealt with sources of knowledge that originate within the experience itself. This situated source exists in tension with more traditional modes of institutionalized learning which emphasize knowledge as an objectified curriculum content. Two types of knowing emerge: one reflected in a more practical knowing how, the other in a more theoretical knowing that. T...

Knowing When to Stop