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What is it to understand?551 views
Author
Marasoiu, Andrei, Philosophy - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia0000-0001-9400-7702
Advisors
Gertler, Brie, AS-Philosophy, University of Virginia
Abstract
How are epistemic and phenomenal properties of understanding related? In my dissertation, I offer an answer to this question, relying on an account of how understanding gains its positive epistemic status and on an account of what conscious experiences are associated with understanding. Chapters I and II discuss epistemic aspects of understanding. Chapter III concerns experiences associated with understanding, and classifies them according to the modes in which understanding occurs to us. Then, in Chapter IV, I address the epistemic bearing of these types of experiences for understanding.
Marasoiu, Andrei. What is it to understand?. University of Virginia, Philosophy - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2019-04-30, https://doi.org/10.18130/v3-9jfa-ma75.