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Integrating Philosophy of Understanding With the Cognitive Sciences
Kareem Khalifa1, Farhan Islam2, J P Gamboa3
1Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States.
Abstract:
We provide two programmatic frameworks for integrating philosophical research on understanding with complementary work in computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. First, philosophical theories of understanding have consequences about how agents should reason if they are to understand that can then be evaluated empirically by their concordance with findings in scientific studies of reasoning. Second, these studies use a multitude of explanations, and a philosophical theory of understanding is well suited to integrating these explanations in illuminating ways.
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