The Varieties of Understanding: Challenges and new Directions

The dawn of the XXI century saw the beginning of an explosion of interest in the nature of the precious cognitive achievement that goes by the ordinary name of “understanding”. Two and a half decades later, the literature produced by epistemologists, philosophers of science, cognitive psychologists, has shed so much light on so many aspects and manifestations of the diverse forms that understanding can take, that it feels appropriate to ask where our understanding of understanding stands at the present, after all those contributions. This conference aims to address that very general question by calling for papers that tackle the following more specific questions and related ones: