Understanding and Conscious Experience

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.

Autorentext

Andrei Ionu Mroiu is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. In 2019, he received a PhD from the University of Virginia. He published articles in journals such as Acta Analytica, Journal of Philosophical Research and Axiomathes.

Mircea Dumitru is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest and Vice-President of the Romanian Academy, having held many positions (rector, minister). His 1998 PhD from Tulane University concerned modal and second-order logic. Recently he edited Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine at Oxford University Press.

Inhalt

Introduction Andrei Ionu Mroiu 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 Toboaru 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