03554nam 2200613Ia 450 991081211640332120200520144314.00-7914-8612-51-4175-3774-410.1515/9780791486122(CKB)1000000000448710(OCoLC)61367808(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594918(SSID)ssj0000264780(PQKBManifestationID)11201014(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000264780(PQKBWorkID)10291228(PQKB)11534762(MiAaPQ)EBC3408577(OCoLC)56408576(MdBmJHUP)muse6069(Au-PeEL)EBL3408577(CaPaEBR)ebr10594918(DE-B1597)682389(DE-B1597)9780791486122(EXLCZ)99100000000044871020030204d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrUnderstanding understanding /Richard MasonAlbany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (141 p.)SUNY series in philosophyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5871-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.Intro -- Understanding Understanding -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What we Understand -- 2. How we Understand -- 3. Understanding and Knowledge -- 4. Intelligibility -- 5. Failures of Understanding -- 6. Beyond Understanding -- 7. Wisdom -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of under¬standing, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable.Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfort¬able thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at least as much as knowledge. How we understand understanding affects how we understand philosophy. If we put aside a narrow view of under¬standing based upon a Cartesian model of knowledge, we may gain a more liberal, open understanding of philosophy.Mason's treatment of these fascinating problems offers a clear and lucid dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophical schools and with philosophy's past. His discussions include the thought of Hume, Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This fascinating book contributes to the work of many of these traditions as well as to the nature of understanding in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics.Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory ofComprehension (Theory of knowledge)Knowledge, Theory of.121Mason Richard1948-2006.923110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812116403321Understanding understanding4116604UNINA