Kareem Khalifa
Middlebury College, USA
Fall 2016
Explanation, Pluralism, and Representation
Kareem Khalifa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Middlebury College. He is the author of Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) and articles on a range of subjects in the general philosophy of science, epistemology, and the philosophy of social science. While in Pittsburgh, Khalifa will be developing a new account of explanation grounded in an inferentialist semantics. When he is not philosophizing, he plays a variety of stringed instruments and posts many pictures of his dogs on Facebook.?
2014
Promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor at Middlebury College.
Articles:
2013c. Understanding, grasping, and luck<http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2013.6>. Episteme 10 (1): 1-17.
2013b. Is understanding explanatory or objectual?<http://www.springerlink.com/content/7381x852lkwv0877/> Synthese. 190 (6): 1153-1171
(with Jose Diez and Bert Leuridan). 2013. General theories of explanation: buyer beware.<http://www.springerlink.com/content/4250073u24u68514/> Synthese. 190 (3): 379-396
2013a. The role of explanation in understanding<http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/13/bjps.axr057>. British Journal for Philosophy of Science 64 (1): 161-187.
2012. Inaugurating understanding or repackaging explanation?<http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663235> Philosophy of Science 79 (1): 15-37.
2013
2013c. Understanding, grasping, and luck<http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2013.6>. Episteme 10 (1): 1-17.
2013b. Is understanding explanatory or objectual?<http://www.springerlink.com/content/7381x852lkwv0877/> Synthese. 190 (6): 1153-1171
(with Jose Diez and Bert Leuridan). 2013. General theories of explanation: buyer beware.<http://www.springerlink.com/content/4250073u24u68514/> Synthese. 190 (3): 379-396
2013a. The role of explanation in understanding http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/13/bjps.axr057. British Journal for Philosophy of Science 64 (1): 161-187.
2012. Inaugurating understanding or repackaging explanation?<http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663235> Philosophy of Science 79 (1): 15-37.
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