Löwensteins Begriff von Kompetenz und Regressargumente
With his recently published account of know-how David Löwenstein takes a mediating position between intellectualists and anti-intellectualists. Therefore it may appear to be an interesting question to what extent arguments from both sides of the debate can be applied to Löwenstein's
concept. The goal of this paper is to start a discussion of this question with regard to regress arguments which may be seen as variants of Ryle's famous one. As a preparation for this I want to begin with a recapitulation of Löwenstein's concepts. Afterwards his two main strategies against
the regress argument are discussed. Roughly speaking I will argue that problems arise for both Löwenstein's deflation hypotheses which are central for the first strategy. In regard to the second strategy I want to show that it also relies on these hypotheses as long as Löwenstein
does not want to abandon the claim that selfreferential capacities are necessary for genuine competence.
Language: German
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2019
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