Explaining understanding : new perspectives from epistemology and philosophy of science

Author(s)

• Grimm, Stephen R. (Stephen Robert)
• Baumberger, Christoph
• Ammon, Sabine

Bibliographic Information

Explaining understanding : new perspectives from epistemology and philosophy of science

edited by Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger and Sabine Ammon

Routledge, 2020

• : pbk

Note

Previous ed., published in 2017

"First issued in paperback 2020"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Guide to the Essays 1 What is Understanding? An Overview of Recent Debates in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Christoph Baumberger, Claus Beisbart and Georg Brun Part I Understanding and the Facts 2 How Idealization Provide Understanding Michael Strevens 3 How False Theories can Yield Genuine Understanding Henk W. de Regt and Victor Gijsbers 4 Exemplification in Understanding Catherine Z. Elgin 5 Explaining Understanding, Understanding Knowledge Sabine Ammon 6 Enlightening Falsehoods: A Model View of Scientific Understanding Soazig Le Bihan Part II Understanding and its Norms 7 Must Understanding be Coherent? Kareem Khalifa 8 Dimensions of Objectual Understanding Christoph Baumberger and Georg Brun 9 An Evidentialist Account of Explanatory Understanding Mark Newman 10 Understanding and Transparency Stephen R. Grimm 11 Satisfying Understanding John Greco Part III Understanding and the Epistemic Agent 12 Towards a Knowledge-Based Account of Understanding Christoph Kelp 13 Cognitive Bias, Scepticism and Understanding J. Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard 14 Social Epistemology and the Acquisition of Understanding Emma C. Gordon 15 Understanding without Believing Daniel A. Wilkenfeld Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC08639388
• ISBN:
  • 9780367736767
• LCCN: 2016013447
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Agingdon, Oxon
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 337 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 121
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of
  • LCSH : Science -- Philosophy