Understanding Why

Noûs 49 (2):661-688 (2015)
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I argue that understanding why p involves a kind of intellectual know how and differsfrom both knowledge that p and knowledge why p (as they are standardly understood).I argue that understanding, in this sense, is valuable.

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10.1111/nous.12092

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original Hills, Alison (2015) "Understanding Why". Noûs 50(4):661-688

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