"Understanding and Transparency"

In Explaining Understanding: New Perspectives From Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Routledge (2016)
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Abstract

I explore the extent to which the epistemic state of understanding is transparent to the one who understands. Against several contemporary epistemologists, I argue that it is not transparent in the way that many have claimed, drawing on results from developmental psychology, animal cognition, and other fields.

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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference.Judea Pearl - 2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
The origin of concepts.Susan Carey - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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