The Social Fabric of Understanding

This book is a journey of in-depth exploration into the social dimensions of understanding. As human beings, we strive to understand the world around us. The path to understanding, however, is rarely walked alone; we walk the path with others. We understand more together, by joining forces, than we would understand alone. When we understand something and come to see things clearly, it is probably because someone else has taught us, enlightened us, shared his or her perspective with us, or shaped our environment so that our attempts to make sense of the world were likely to succeed. Understanding, then, is a social rather than an individual achievement. The book will be of great interest to philosophers working in epistemology, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of education.

List of contents

1 The Way Ahead.- 2 Understanding Phenomena: A Tentative Model.- 3 Knowledge, Understanding, and Credit Attributions.- 4 Understanding and Testimony: Transmission.- 5 Understanding and Testimony: Generation.- 6 Towards Collective Understanding.- 7 Understanding and Education.

Product details

• Authors: Federica Isabella Malfatti
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.06.2025
• EAN: 9783031926846
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3192684-6
• No. of pages: 170
• Illustrations: VI, 170 p.
• Series: Synthese Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophie des Geistes, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, philosophy of education, Philosophie: Logik, Science Communication, epistemology of science, the science of understanding, philosophy of trust, the social fabric of understanding