Human Understanding as Problem / / ed. by Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal.

The problems associated with understanding come to light in many facets of our lives. This volume is dedicated to describing these facets and clarifying problems related to levels of comprehension, conceptual analysis, understanding oneself and the other as well as cultural aspects of understanding....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Aporia , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (V, 191 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Human Understanding as Problem: An Introduction
  • Levels of Understanding
  • Two Ways to Fail to Understand
  • Understanding, Understanding Oneself, Self-Understanding
  • Towards a Performative Hermeneutics
  • Wittgenstein on Understanding and Description
  • Understanding, Meaning, and Expression
  • Understanding Regarded as Comprehension of Content
  • An Analytic View of Understanding
  • Can We (Really) Put Ourselves in Other People’s Shoes?
  • God, Lions, and Englishwomen
  • Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works
  • Index
  • List of Contributors