Why understanding-why is contrastive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10813833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Egler (0000-0002-5031-8178, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 199 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 6061-6083 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-021-03059-x |
| OpenAlex | W3127589975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Contrastivism about interrogative understanding is the view that ‘S understands why p ’ posits a three-place epistemic relation between a subject S, a fact p , and an alternative to p , q . This thesis stands in stark opposition to the natural idea that a subject S can be said to understand why p simpliciter . I argue that contrastivism offers the best explanation for the fact that evaluations of the form ‘S understands why p ’ vary depending on the alternatives to p under consideration. I also show that contrastivism offers valuable resources with which to explain the gradability of interrogative understanding attributions, as well as the sensitivity of these attributions to the perceived degree of epistemic demandingness of different contexts
Attribution · Epistemology · Interrogative · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Opposition (politics) · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Political science · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |