Understanding without Justification and Belief?

Seungbae Park

doi:10.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n3p379

Authors

Seungbae Park Division of General Studies Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Republic of Korea

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n3p379

Abstract

Dellsén (2016a) argues that understanding requires neither justification nor belief. I object that ridding understanding of justification and belief comes with the following costs. (i) No claim about the world can be inferred from what we understand. (ii) We run into either Moore’s paradox or certain disconcerting questions. (iii) Understanding does not represent the world. (iv) Understanding cannot take the central place in epistemology. (v) Understanding cannot be invoked to give an account of scientific progress. (vi) It is not clear how misunderstanding arises.

Author Biography

Seungbae Park, Division of General Studies Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Republic of Korea

Seungbae Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001, having specialized in philosophy of science under the guidance of Prof. Richard Healey. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, and POSTECH, before coming to his current institution in 2009.