The debate over the nature of knowledge has long contended with the distinction between theoretical understanding (knowing that) and the capacity to perform tasks (knowing how). This research topic ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three individuals who elucidated technological innovation and economic growth: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. Notably, ...

Cardiff Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Knowledge can take many forms. There is “knowledge by acquaintance”, as in knowing a person or place. There is ...

Synthese, Vol. 194, No. 2, Special Issue on A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON (February 2017), pp. 511-530 (20 pages) I argue that the intellectualist account of knowledge-how, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Mr. Mokyr is an economic historian who has focused on understanding why we got the so-called ...

This post is in response to Knowledge Is Dead By John Nosta John Nosta’s recent essay, “Knowledge Is Dead,” on Psychology Today makes a bold and provocative claim. He asserts that the traditional ...

The current Nobel Prize in Economics has been given to three economists — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt — who have studied the role of technological change and creative destruction in ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics has gone to three economists - two of them based in the US, although neither is US-born, and the third, in France - 'for having explained innovation-driven economic ...