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This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science.
The past two decades have witnessed growing interest from epistemologists, philosophers of science, philosophers of mind and ethicists in the nature and value of intellectual understanding. This volume features original essays on understanding and the phenomenal experiences that underlie it. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part 1 provides theoretical characterizations of understanding, including Henk de Regt's defense of a contextual theory of scientific understanding and a debate on whether scientific inference and explanatory power are necessary or central features of understanding. Part 2 explores how conscious experience and understanding are related. The chapters articulate a phenomenal theory of understanding and address themes that are connected to understanding, including awareness, transformative experiences and exemplification. Finally, Part 3 is devoted to domain-specific inquiries about understanding, such as logical proofs, particle physics and moral understanding.
Understanding and Conscious Experience will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics and phenomenology.
Contents
Introduction Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu Part 1 1. Understanding in Science and Beyond Henk W. de Regt 2. The Nature and Value of Understanding Duncan Pritchard 3. Understanding and Inference in Recent Works on Scientific Understanding Lilia Gurova 4. Defending Understanding without Explanation Richard David-Rus Part 2 5. A Phenomenal Theory of Grasping and Understanding David Bourget 6. Awareness, Apperception and Understanding Catherine Z. Elgin 7. Understanding Identity Transformative Experiences Mircea Toboşaru 8. Ways of Understanding the Phenomenal: The Cases of Pictorial Representation and Exemplification Constantin Stoenescu Part 3 9. 'Feeling the Proof': Is There Such a Thing as a Phenomenology of Reasoning? Mircea Dumitru 10. Recalcitrant Anomalies, Ignorance, Insights, and Scientific Understanding: A Structuralist Approach María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz and Moisés Macías-Bustos 11. Moral Understanding Christoph Kelp
