Intellectualism – the thesis that know-how is a kind of knowthat
– has proved difficult to assess by the traditional
philosophical method of conceptual analysis. Recently, some
authors have argued that we should instead look to results in
psychology – specifically whether all procedural knowledge
is declarative knowledge. I argue that such an approach is
unsatisfactory, since the concepts employed in psychology do
not map onto our concepts of knowledge in any neat way.
There is no straightforward psychological interpretation of the
intellectualist thesis.
