List of Contributors .......................................... vii
Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Guide to the Essays ............................................ xi
1 What is Understanding? An Overview of Recent Debates
in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science .................... 1
CHRISTOPH BAUMBERGER, CLAUS BEISBART, AND GEORG BRUN
PART I. Understanding and the Facts ............................ 35
2 How Idealizations Provide Understanding ..................... 37
MICHAEL STREVENS
3 How False Theories Can Yield Genuine Understanding .......... 50
HENK W. DE REGT AND VICTOR GIJSBERS
4 Exemplification in Understanding ............................ 76
CATHERINE Z. ELGIN
5 Explaining Understanding, Understanding Knowledge ........... 92
SABINE AMMON
6 Enlightening Falsehoods: A Modal View of Scientific
Understanding .............................................. 111
SOAZIG LE BIHAN
PART II. Understanding and its Norms .......................... 137
7 Must Understanding be Coherent? ............................ 139
KAREEM KHALIFA
8 Dimensions of Objectual Understanding ...................... 165
CHRISTOPH BAUMBERGER AND GEORG BRUN
9 An Evidentialist Account of Explanatory Understanding ...... 190
MARK NEWMAN
10 Understanding and Transparency ............................. 212
STEPHEN R. GRIMM
11 Satisfying Understanding ................................... 230
JOHN GRECO
PART III. Understanding and the Epistemic Agent ............... 249
12 Towards a Knowledge-Based Account of Understanding ......... 251
CHRISTOPH KELP
13 Cognitive Bias, Scepticism and Understanding ............... 272
J. ADAM CARTER AND DUNCAN PRITCHARD
14 Social Epistemology and the Acquisition of Understanding ... 293
EMMA C. GORDON
15 Understanding Without Believing ............................ 318
DANIEL A. WILKENFELD
Index ......................................................... 335
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