Understanding and Conscious Experience

Andrei Ionuţ Mărăşoiu 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.

Introduction Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu 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 Toboşaru 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