British philosopher who demolished the Cartesian ghost in the machine — mind-body dualism — by showing it rests on a category mistake, and introduced the distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that.
The Concept of Mind: Descartes's dualism commits a category mistake — mental terms do not refer to a separate immaterial substance but describe dispositions of the person. The myth of the ghost in the machine. Knowing-how is irreducible to knowing-that: practical skills are not reducible to explicit propositional knowledge.
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