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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
2017
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- Phenomenological understanding and electric eels Raoul Gervais Filosofía subjective explanation Understanding phenomenology electric eels Explanations are supposed to provide us with understanding. I t is common to make a distinction between genuine, scientific understanding, and the phenomenological, or ‘aha’ notion of understanding, where the former is considered epistemically relevant, the latter irrelevant. I argue that there is a variety of phenomeno - logical understanding that does play a positive epistemic role. This phenomenological understanding involves a similarity between bodily sensations that is used as evidence for mechanistic hypotheses. As a case study, I will consider 17th and 18th century research into the mechanism behind the electric eel’s power to shock. 2017 artículo científico 0495-4548 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339753366002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3397 THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia application/pdf Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea THEORIA. Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia (España) Num.3 Vol.32