Logos and episteme
Tiegue VIEIRA RODRIGUES, Alexandre ZIANI DE BORBA ABSTRACT: It is often said that truth is the fundamental value of epistemic norms. Values such as rationality and evidence are valuable insofar as they help to avoid false beliefs and achieve true ones. This view is generally called veritism. However, in a recent work, Catherine Elgin (2017) argued that veritism cannot account …
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UNDERSTANDING AND ATTENDING TO WHAT MATTERS (pages 271-294)
Alice WHEATLEY ABSTRACT: We do not just want to know the truth. We also want to make sense of things, such that we understand. In this paper, I argue that understanding is distinctively valuable because it involves attending to what matters; more specifically, we cannot improve understanding by obscuring what matters. Section 1 introduces some cases that suggest understanding involves …
Read More »HUSSERLIAN EIDETIC VARIATION AND OBJECTUAL UNDERSTANDING AS A BASIS FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF ESSENCE (pages 333-353)
Robert MICHELS ABSTRACT: Vaidya has recently argued that while Husserl’s method for acquiring knowledge of essence through use of our imagination is subject to a vicious epistemic circle, we can still use the method to successfully attain objectual understanding of essence. In this paper, I argue that the Husserlian objectual understanding-based epistemology envisaged by Vaidya suffers from a similar epistemic …
Read More »OVERCOMING INTELLECTUALISM ABOUT UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE: A UNIFIED APPROACH (pages 7-26)
Eros M. de CARVALHO ABSTRACT: In this paper I defend a unified approach to knowledge and understanding. Both are achievements due to cognitive abilities or skills. The difference between them is a difference of aspects. Knowledge emphasizes the successful aspect of an achievement and the exclusion of epistemic luck, whereas understanding emphasizes the agent’s contribution in bringing about an achievement …
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