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Varieties of Understanding - New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (Hardcover)
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Varieties of Understanding - New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of
understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of
Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of
understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks
like from different perspectives and exploring how ordinary people
use the notion of understanding. According to a long historical
tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In
particular, it is said that understanding people has a different
epistemic profile than understanding the natural world-that it
calls on different cognitive resources and brings to bear
distinctive normative considerations. Thus, in order to understand
people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically
reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way.
By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like
earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of
sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed-mainly because there
are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no
perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together. This volume
brings together some of the world's leading philosophers,
psychologists, and theologians in order to shed light on the
various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on
this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.
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