GROUP KNOW-HOW: A REPLY TO PALERMOS AND TOLLEFSEN (pages 229-242)

Xuanzi FANG

ABSTRACT: In recent work, Palermos and Tollefsen develop a novel account of group know-how (GKH)—know-how applicable to a group as a whole—and which they take to be superior to envisioned accounts of group know-how that reduce the group know-how to that of individuals. While their argument has promise, I aim to show that it succumbs to several objections, an appreciation of which gives us a better sense of what desiderata a satisfactory account of group-level know-how will need to meet.

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