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A draft of Adam Carter's paper "Good Moves", which sets out an account of telic know-how as a disposition to select and sequence good moves, is now on our Publications page. Comments are welcome: adam.carter@glasgow.ac.uk
The site now has an Events page, listing the conferences and workshops KNOW-HOW has organised or sponsored, and a Talks page listing talks by members of the team.
Two new open-access papers from the team look at the nature of ignorance. In the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Adam Carter and Oscar A. Piedrahita argue against the view that being ignorant that p is simply failing to know that p. In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mona Simion, Christoph Kelp and Lilith Mace give an account of objectual and factual ignorance and of when attributions of ignorance are true. Links: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2026.2707332 an
Two new open-access papers by Adam Carter have appeared in Inquiry. "Who Acts When the Machine Decides? Intentional Action and Agentic AI" defends a know-how account of acting intentionally through AI systems that choose their own means. "Autonomous Knowledge: Responses to My Critics" replies to five commentaries on his book Autonomous Knowledge. Links: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2685308 and https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2653707
Adam Carter has been elected a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Adam Carter and Jesper Kallestrup's "Virtuous Deferral" is out open access in Noûs. It develops a telic account of doxastic deference that explains how knowledge gained by deferring to others can still be creditable to the knower. Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.70041
Jesper Kallestrup, Chair in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, joins KNOW-HOW this week as Senior Professorial Fellow, based at COGITO in Glasgow until August 2026.
Adam Carter and Christopher Willard-Kyle's "Virtue Epistemology for the Zetetic Turn" is now published open access in Mind (vol. 134, no. 536). The paper extends virtue epistemology from beliefs to questioning attitudes, and gives an account of when such attitudes are competent and apt. Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzaf028
Satsuki Inoue, a PhD student at Chiba University in Japan, has joined COGITO as a visiting PhD researcher with the KNOW-HOW project. Satsuki works on the nature of know-how, and will be with us in Glasgow until spring 2026.
Tim Kearl and Adam Carter's paper "Easy Practical Knowledge" is now out online first in the Journal of Philosophy. It argues that practical knowledge, the knowledge agents have of what they're doing as they act intentionally, is "easy": manifesting one's skills provides a priori justification for beliefs about one's actions. The paper is free to read. Link: https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil202510314
