Dear all, Please join us for the second CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar of Easter Term tomorrow, Wednesday 8th May, 1-2:30pm in HPS Seminar Room 2. Paulina Sliwa (Philosophy, Cambridge) will give a talk entitled "Understanding as a Way of Knowing". The abstract is below.
All welcome. Best wishes, Vashka -- Understanding, and particularly the link between understanding and explanations, has long been of interest to philosophers of science. More recently, epistemologists have discovered understanding; focussing particularly on the relationship between understanding and knowledge. The aim of this paper is to argue, against the received wisdom in epistemology, that understanding p is identical to knowing p. More precisely, I try to develop a view on which understanding is a way of knowing. I then draw out some implications for how explanation fits into the picture. -- 1 May: William Harper (University of Western Ontario) "Isaac Newton's scientific method" 8 May: Paulina Sliwa (Philosophy, Cambridge) "Knowing and understanding" 15 May: Donald Gillies (UCL) "Two views on the relation between causality and probability" 22 May: Ian Kidd (Durham University) "Epistemic humility" _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
