NDLI: MUDdy understanding

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Wilkenfeld, Daniel A.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This paper focuses on two questions: (1) Is understanding intimately bound up with accurately representing the world? (2) Is understanding intimately bound up with downstream abilities? We will argue that the answer to both these questions is “yes”, and for the same reason-both accuracy and ability are important elements of orthogonal evaluative criteria along which understanding can be assessed. More precisely, we will argue that representational-accuracy (of which we assume truth is one kind) and intelligibility (which we will define so as to entail abilities) are good-making features of a state of understanding. Interestingly, both evaluative claims have been defended by philosophers in the literature on understanding as the criterion of evaluation. We argue that proponents of both approaches have important insights and that, drawing on both their own observations and a few novel arguments, we can construct a more complete picture of understanding evaluation. We thus posit the theory of there being Multiple Understanding Dimensions. The main thing to note about our dualism regarding the evaluative criteria of understanding is that it accounts for the intuitions about cases underlying both previously held positions.
Starting Page	1273
Ending Page	1293
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	194
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-12-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Understanding Explanation Philosophy of science Factivity Epistemology Philosophy of Science Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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