AbstractsPhilosophy & Theology

Understanding, Desirability and Truth

by Johan Marticki




Institution: Uppsala University
Department:
Year: 2016
Keywords: Knowledge; understanding; epistemology; evidence; desirability; mimetic theory; scapegoating; truth.; Humanities; Humaniora; Bachelor Programme in Theology and Religious Studies; Kandidatprogram i religionsvetenskap; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies in Systematic Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2066524
Full text PDF: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295642


Abstract

This paper examines how human beings may be able to reach certain kinds of understanding. On either side of the how, a cognitive apparatus and evidence will be theoretically presupposed. Though this examination will frequently spill over into the domains of cognition and evidence, there is no presupposition that the solution will be found exclusively in either; rather, answers will be sought in a conceptually unprejudiced how.