Grimm / Baumberger / Ammon Explaining Understanding

New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-41416-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten

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. Its 15 original chapters are essential reading for researchers and graduate students interested in the current debates about understanding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grimm, Stephen R

Baumberger, Christoph

Ammon, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 is a Marie-Curie-Fellow at the Berlin University of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from Berlin University of Technology, and she works mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of technology and engineering sciences, image theory, and design ethics.