List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Guide to the Essays
1 What is Understanding? An Overview of Recent Debates in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Christoph Baumberger, Claus Beisbart and Georg Brun
Part I
Understanding and the Facts
2 How Idealization Provide Understanding
Michael Strevens
3 How False Theories can Yield Genuine Understanding
Henk W. de Regt and Victor Gijsbers
4 Exemplification in Understanding
Catherine Z. Elgin
5 Explaining Understanding, Understanding Knowledge
Sabine Ammon
6 Enlightening Falsehoods: A Model View of Scientific Understanding
Soazig Le Bihan
Part II
Understanding and its Norms
7 Must Understanding be Coherent?
Kareem Khalifa
8 Dimensions of Objectual Understanding
Christoph Baumberger and Georg Brun
9 An Evidentialist Account of Explanatory Understanding
Mark Newman
10 Understanding and Transparency
Stephen R. Grimm
11 Satisfying Understanding
John Greco
Part III
Understanding and the Epistemic Agent
12 Towards a Knowledge-Based Account of Understanding
Christoph Kelp
13 Cognitive Bias, Scepticism and Understanding
J. Adam Carter and Duncan Pritchard
14 Social Epistemology and the Acquisition of Understanding
Emma C. Gordon
15 Understanding without Believing
Daniel A. Wilkenfeld
Index
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 Skłodowska-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.
"Recent epistemology has drawn increasing attention to the upper normative dimensions of the life of the mind. At the center of these discussions has been a concern with understanding conceived of as a state superior to true belief, justified belief, and even knowledge. The present volume advances previous discussions of understanding along several fronts. It brings together leading epistemologists and philosophers of science to address such issues as the relationship between understanding and truth, the nature and structure of the justificatory element of understanding, whether understanding requires knowledge (or even belief), and much more. The volume is very well-organized and the chapters complement and engage each other in interesting and fruitful ways. It provides anyone with an interest in philosophical issues related to understanding with a great deal to think about and learn from."- Jason Baehr, Loyola Marymount University, USA"The volume’s introductory essay by Christoph Baumberger, Claus Beisbart, and Georg Brun provides an excellent overview of recent debates about understanding. Explaining Understanding contains some excellent essays that are likely to become highly influential."- Finnur Dellsen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
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