7卷 第2期
What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?
What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?
- 2023年7卷第2期 页码:5-18
纸质出版日期: 2023-11-27
DOI:10.47297/wspjhcWSP2515-469901.20230702
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7卷 第2期
1.Beijing Normal University, China
2.University of Guelph, Canada
纸质出版日期: 2023-11-27 ,
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(2023). What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?. 认知科学(英文版), 7(2), 5-18.
Petkov Stefan,Yu Haomiao.What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?[J].Journal of Human Cognition,2023,07(02):5-18.
(2023). What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?. 认知科学(英文版), 7(2), 5-18. DOI: 10.47297/wspjhcWSP2515-469901.20230702.
Petkov Stefan,Yu Haomiao.What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?[J].Journal of Human Cognition,2023,07(02):5-18. DOI: 10.47297/wspjhcWSP2515-469901.20230702.
We present the negative phenomena of understanding in relation to scientific explanations. We begin by formulating the distinction between genuine understanding and lack of understanding
to define the epistemic category of misunderstanding. We illustrate misunderstanding with a short meta-philosophical study on the current debates about distinctively mathematical explanations.
Explanatory UnderstandingEpistemic InclinationMisunderstandingPhenomenologyDistinctively Mathematical Explanations
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