Making Sense of the World

New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding
Herausgeber: Grimm, Stephen R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection offers original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers. Although some of the essays are by scholars well known for their work on understanding, many of the essays bring entirely new figures to the discussion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190469863
• ISBN-10: 0190469862
• Artikelnr.: 48813691

Autorenporträt

Stephen R. Grimm is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Stephen R. Grimm: Introduction
2: John Bengson: The Unity of Understanding
3: Remy Debes: Understanding Persons and The Problem of Power
4: Fiona Ellis: Religious Understanding, Naturalism, and Desire
5: Gordon Graham: Philosophy, Knowledge, and Understanding
6: Stephen R. Grimm: The Ethics of Understanding
7: Allan Hazlett: Understanding and Structure
8: Alison Hills: Aesthetic Understanding
9: Jenann Ismael: Why (Study) the Humanities? The View from Science
10: Michael Lynch: Understanding and Coming to Understand
11: Bradford Skow: Against Understanding (as a Condition on Explanation)
12: J. D. Trout: Understanding and Fluency