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Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge (Paperback)
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Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge (Paperback)
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From antiquity to the end of the twentieth century, philosophical
discussions of understanding remained undeveloped, guided by a
'received view' that takes understanding to be nothing more than
knowledge of an explanation. More recently, however, this received
view has been criticized, and bold new philosophical proposals
about understanding have emerged in its place. In this book, Kareem
Khalifa argues that the received view should be revised but not
abandoned. In doing so, he clarifies and answers the most central
questions in this burgeoning field of philosophical research: what
kinds of cognitive abilities are involved in understanding? What is
the relationship between the understanding that explanations
provide and the understanding that experts have of broader subject
matters? Can there be understanding without explanation? How can
one understand something on the basis of falsehoods? Is
understanding a species of knowledge? What is the value of
understanding?
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