Aimar, Simona;
Pavese, Carlotta;
(2025)
Technical Knowledge as Scientific Knowledge
in Aristotle.
Phronesis
pp. 1-75.
10.1163/15685284-bja10104.
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Abstract
Doctors heal people, and architects build houses. Their expertise guides them in their performance. Aristotle calls this expertise a technē. He often tells us that technē comes with a productive form of knowledge (poiētikē epistēmē). But what kind of knowledge does he associate with technē? We argue that for Aristotle technical knowledge is scientific knowledge—knowledge that can be modeled in terms of demonstrations. The view we develop enjoys several explanatory advantages over alternative interpretations and shows how Aristotle’s conception of technical knowledge is consistent throughout his metaphysics, philosophy of science, and ethics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Technical Knowledge as Scientific Knowledge in Aristotle |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15685284-bja10104 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-bja10104 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207304 |
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