Is understanding explanatory or objectual?

Kareem Khalifa

pp. 1153-1171

in: Synthese 190 (6), 2013.

Abstract

Jonathan Kvanvig has argued that “objectual” understanding, i.e. the understanding we have of a large body of information, cannot be reduced to explanatory concepts. In this paper, I show that Kvanvig fails to establish this point, and then propose a framework for reducing objectual understanding to explanatory understanding.