Knowledge, Understanding and Epistemic Value
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 64:19-43 (2009)
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Duncan Pritchard
University of California, Irvine
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It is argued that a popular way of accounting for the distinctive value of knowledge by appeal to the distinctive value of cognitive achievements fails because it is a mistake to identify knowledge with cognitive achievements. Nevertheless, it is claimed that understanding, properly conceived, is a type of cognitive achievement, and thus that the distinctive value of cognitive achievements can explain why understanding is of special value
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