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Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge

by Kareem Khalifa
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781107195639
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 262
  • Original Price: USD 133.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 513 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Philosophy & Social Aspects

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?

Khalifa, Kareem: - Kareem Khalifa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College, Vermont. He has published a number of articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.

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