Stephen R. (Hrsg.) Grimm

Explaining Understanding

New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

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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 unde… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Baumberger, Christoph (Hrsg.) / Ammon, Sabine (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-41416-2
EAN: 9781317414162
Produktnummer: 21414418
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 354 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'418 KB
Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

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