Notes
- p.5/6
Discussion of Aristotle's phronimos ""Practical wisdom". Dreyfus rejects McDowell's "reconstruction", as it "suggests that these reasons must have been implicit all along". Not so, explanation of stone falling due to gravity does not mean stone had idea of gravity. Reconstruction of 'reasons' for doing things may be precisely that a 'construct' … but no less important because of that.
- p.9
expert systems 'competent performer' because experts do not follow rules, even if, when asked they offer "retroactive rationalisation". However, again, reflection, as in Schon, is exactly such a retrospective, maybe not rationalisation, but certainly analysis.