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Alexander James Bird

Cambridge University
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Cambridge University
Faculty of Philosophy
PhD, 1991
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Epistemology
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  • Understanding Why
    Alison Hills
    Noûs 49 (2): 661-688. 2015.
    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.