Explaining Understanding: New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367736764 ISBN 13: 9780367736767

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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 Sk¿odowska-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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367736764
• ISBN 13: 9780367736767
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356
• Herausgeber: Grimm Stephen R., Baumberger Christoph, Ammon Sabine
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