Book contents
- THE PRACTICAL MIND
- THE PRACTICAL MIND
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part IFoundations
- Part IIIntellectualism with a Human Face
- Chapter 7Anti-intellectualism about Skilled Action and Its Discontents
- Chapter 8Three Kinds of Control and the Mindedness of Skilled Action
- Chapter 9Practical Representation and Procedural Control
- Chapter 10Practical Concepts and Productive Reasoning
- Chapter 11An Epistemic Theory of Strategic Control
- Chapter 12From Puzzles about Control, Learning, and Flexibility to a Theory of Skill
- Chapter 13Collective Skill, Practices, and Cumulative Culture
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Chapter 13 - Collective Skill, Practices, and Cumulative Culture
from Part II - Intellectualism with a Human Face
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2026
Book contents
- THE PRACTICAL MIND
- THE PRACTICAL MIND
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part IFoundations
- Part IIIntellectualism with a Human Face
- Chapter 7Anti-intellectualism about Skilled Action and Its Discontents
- Chapter 8Three Kinds of Control and the Mindedness of Skilled Action
- Chapter 9Practical Representation and Procedural Control
- Chapter 10Practical Concepts and Productive Reasoning
- Chapter 11An Epistemic Theory of Strategic Control
- Chapter 12From Puzzles about Control, Learning, and Flexibility to a Theory of Skill
- Chapter 13Collective Skill, Practices, and Cumulative Culture
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 13 COLLECTIVE SKILLS, PRACTICES, AND CULTURAL INNOVATION argues that, in order to make sense of the possibility of cumulative culture, we ought to distinguish between collective skills and individual or group skills. I argue that practices are partly grounded on cognitive states of agents, rather than entirely on individual and collective dispositions, if cumulative culture is possible. Collective intelligence is explained in terms of a theory of collective skills as productive practices.
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- The Practical MindSkill, Knowledge, and Intelligence, pp. 316 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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