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dc.contributor.authorde Regt, Henk
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-09T15:12:29Z
dc.date.available2024-12-09T15:12:29Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95817
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledgeen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of scienceen_US
dc.subject.otherscientific understanding,value of understanding,scientific explanation,logical proofs and inferences,epistemology of modeling,structuralism,phenomenal experience,epistemology of ignorance,Aha experiences,insights,tacit understanding,transformative experiences,exemplification,pictorial representation,cognitive enhancement,moral understandingen_US
dc.titleChapter 1 Understanding in science and beyonden_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003437239-3en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBooka886206a-85ba-4581-a25f-b7a4ab2966dben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByf8086bb3-4491-4846-8538-b72c95d76c0den_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032568072en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032568089en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages20en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University


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