ON THE CRITERIA OF UNDERSTANDING IN NATURAL SCIENCE, RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Vladimir Moiseevich Reznikov1,2
1Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia 2National Research State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: understanding without explanation, intelligible theory, intelligible model, understandable phenomenon
Abstract
The article formulates arguments for the independent significance of the problem of understanding in contemporary philosophy of science. Obviously, it is impossible to devel-op a serious concept of understanding without examining the indicators of understanding used by scientists. Having studied publications in the field of artificial intelligence, natural science and philosophy of science, the author describes the criteria of understanding used by researchers in these fields of knowledge. The main result is a preliminary classification of the criteria of understanding in view of their degrees of universality and the degrees of understanding of the problems being studied, which researchers get in the course of thinking about and solving these problems when using formal methods.
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