[PHILOS-L] Carlotta Pavese - Procedural knowledge, Know-how, and Flexibility (BGTMC Zoom talk, May 19, 12:15 CEST/18:15 Taiwan time)

[Christopher McCarroll]

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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium, I am pleased to announce the talk “Procedural knowledge, Know-how, and Flexibility” by Carlotta Pavese (University of Oxford) on Tuesday, May 19th (12:15 CEST/18:15 Taiwan time).

Please join the Zoom meeting using the details below. Registration is not necessary.

•⁠ ⁠Link: https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98859063721?pwd=6Xx6tmUpCSaSD4BkF4bPGhrxSuca5t.1
•⁠ Meeting ID: 988 5906 3721
•⁠ Password: 302355

Abstract: In this talk, I develop an argument that know-how cannot be operationalized as procedural knowledge on account of the flexibility that know-how endows experts with. While a long tradition in psychology deems experts as rigid, I argue that the extant evidence for this claim can be accounted for by distinguishing different kinds of flexibility. I argue that the distinctive flexibility of the expert is best explained in terms of the flexibility of reasoning and, via reasoning, in terms of nonprocedural knowledge. As a proof of concept, part of my argument looks at chains-of-thoughts in LLM-integrated robots and at their role in explaining flexibility and innovation. 

 
This virtual colloquium series focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory and related areas, and also reaches out to philosophically interested researchers in the cognitive sciences. The colloquium is organized by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes (Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin), the Ruhr University Bochum (Markus Werning and Juan F. Álvarez), and the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll).

Here is the remaining schedule for this semester:

19.05.2026 – Carlotta Pavese (University of Oxford)
16.06.2026 – Tony Cheng (Waseda Institute of Advanced Study)
23.06.2026 – Juan Diego Bogotá (University of Jyväskylä)
07.07.2026 – Santiago Amaya (Rice University)

For further details, see the colloquium webpages: https://phil-mem.org/seminars/bochum-grenoble-taipei.php and https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/MemoryColloquium.html#BGTMC_2025_2026

We look forward to seeing you.

On behalf of the organisers,

Chris

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