News & Updates

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. Read the draft (PDF). 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

KNOW-HOW was a co-sponsor of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge's 2026 Biennial Conference, held in Oxford on 2–4 September. Adam Carter gave an invited talk, "Good Moves: A Framework for Telic Know-How", and Mariona Miyata-Sturm presented her paper on aesthetic theoretical virtues and understanding. The programme included a keynote by Timothy Williamson and a presidential address by Jessica Brown.

On 9–11 August, KNOW-HOW and COGITO held Knowledge, Language, and Action in Sitges, near Barcelona. The workshop opened with a book symposium on Annalisa Coliva's Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology, followed by talks from Esa Díaz-León, Manuel García-Carpintero, Teresa Marques, Joshua Shepherd and Jesús Navarro, and from team members Adam Carter, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion.

Mariona Miyata-Sturm joins KNOW-HOW today as a postdoctoral researcher for two years. Mariona completed her DPhil at Oxford in 2025 and then taught as a Stipendiary Lecturer at New College, Oxford. She works in philosophy of science, epistemology and aesthetics; on the project she is studying the role of metacognitive feelings in know-how.

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

On 4–6 May, KNOW-HOW and the University of Seville held Knowledge, Action, and Competence, with a book symposium on Ernest Sosa's The Bounds of Knowledge. Sosa gave three lectures on the book, and fifteen speakers, including Susanna Schellenberg, Sanford Goldberg, Ram Neta and Peter J. Graham, gave commentaries and talks. The event was organised by Adam Carter, Jesús Navarro and Juanma Poyatos.

From 30 March to 1 April, KNOW-HOW sponsored AI Epistemics: Knowing in the Age of AI at the Onassis Library in Athens, hosted by the University of Ioannina with COGITO, the University of Aberdeen and FORTH. Speakers included Jennifer Lackey, John Greco, Deborah Tollefsen and Duncan Pritchard, along with KNOW-HOW's Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion.

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

Our postdoctoral position has now been filled. Stay tuned for new job adverts with the KNOW-HOW project: future positions will be announced here and advertised on PhilJobs and Jobs.ac.uk. Contact Adam Carter (adam.carter@glasgow.ac.uk) with questions.

We're ready to go: Research at KNOW-HOW will begin October 1st 2025.