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Chapter 4 - Intelligence, Regresses, and Empiricism

from Part I - Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2026

Carlotta Pavese
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University of Oxford
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Chapter 4 INTELLIGENCE, REGRESSES, AND EMPIRICISM discusses the prospects for a view that reduces intelligence to skillfulness—the Skill View of Intelligence. Though the view comes with many perks, I argue that it does not fit well with an independently motivated empiricism and that, on these bases, we ought to reject it. Nonetheless, many of its perks can be retained on a weaker understanding of the relation between skill and intelligence, one on which intelligence is a bundle of capacities—to acquire, to maintain, to exercise a cluster of skills in a variety of domains (general intelligence) or in specific domains (domain-specific intelligence).

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