科学的知識の理解と説明 Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge

Khalifa, Kareem

Cambridge University Press（2017/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 262 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107195639
• DDC分類 570.1

Full Description

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?

Contents

1. The philosophy of understanding; 2. An illustration: Bjorken scaling; 3. Understanding and ability; 4. Objectual understanding; 5. Understanding without explanation?; 6. Understanding and true belief; 7. Lucky understanding; 8. The value of understanding.