What Is Understanding? An Overview of Recent Debates in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Baumberger, Christoph; Beisbart, Claus; Brun, Georg (2017). What Is Understanding? An Overview of Recent Debates in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. In: Grimm, Steven R.; Baumberger, Christoph; Ammon, Sabine (eds.) Explaining Understanding. New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (pp. 1-34). New York: Routledge

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The paper provides a systematic overview of recent debates in epistemology and philosophy of science on the nature of understanding. We explain why philosophers have turned their attention to understanding and discuss conditions for “explanatory” understanding of why something is the case and for “objectual” understanding of a whole subject matter. The most debated conditions for these types of understanding roughly resemble the three traditional conditions for knowledge: truth, justification and belief. We discuss prominent views about how to construe these conditions for understanding, whether understanding indeed requires conditions of all three types and whether additional conditions are needed.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Teaching Staff, Faculty of Humanities 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy > Theoretical Philosophy
UniBE Contributor:	Beisbart, Claus, Brun, Georg
Subjects:	100 Philosophy 100 Philosophy > 120 Epistemology
ISBN:	978-1-138-92193-1
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Georg Brun
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2017 15:40
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:01
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/92516