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Explaining Understanding

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Challenger Exploded
Cognitive Success
correct
De Regt
Dispositional Belief
Entailment Thesis
epistemic
Epistemic Dependence
Epistemic Luck
Epistemic Standing
Epistemic Virtue
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explanation
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Explanatory Understanding
External World Facts
Fake Barn Case
Full Belief
gas
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Justied True Belief
Knowledge Acquisition
law
Maximal Understanding
Negative Relationship
O-Ring Failure
objectual
Outright Understanding
phlogiston
Radical Sceptical Hypotheses
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Scientic Explanatory Evaluation
Speaker Hearer Interactions
Undefeated Defeaters
Virtue Epistemology

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138921931
  • Weight: 612g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

What does it mean to understand something? What types of understanding can be distinguished? Is understanding always provided by explanations? And how is it related to knowledge? Such questions have attracted considerable interest in epistemology recently. These discussions, however, have not yet engaged insights about explanations and theories developed in philosophy of science. Conversely, philosophers of science have debated the nature of explanations and theories, while dismissing understanding as a psychological by-product.

In this book, epistemologists and philosophers of science together address basic questions about the nature of understanding, providing a new overview of the field. False theories, cognitive bias, transparency, coherency, and other important issues are discussed. Its 15 original chapters are essential reading for researchers and graduate students interested in the current debates about understanding.
About
Stephen R. Grimm is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, his B.A. from Williams College, and he works mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of science, and ethics. Christoph Baumberger is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, and he has published in epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and philosophy of architecture.　 Sabine Ammon works at the Berlin University of Technology as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, funded by the European Union. She received her Ph.D. from Berlin University of Technology. She works mainly in epistemology, philosophy of engineering sciences and technology, image theory, and design ethics.