Where is the understanding?
Recent work in epistemology and philosophy of science has argued that understanding is an important cognitive state that philosophers should seek to analyse. This paper offers a new perspective on understanding by looking to work in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Understanding is normally...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 12; pp. 3859 - 3876 |
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Dec2015
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