On Understanding the Difficulty in Understanding Understanding

By Jay F. Rosenberg. 1981

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “Research and scholarship in this area ranges from work on understanding in general (e.g., Rosenberg, 1981; Keil, 2006; Smith, 2014), to experimental philosophy examining the distinction between knowing and understanding and what it means to understand (Wilkenfeld, 2016; Wilkenfeld et al. 2016ab),…”
FOLK ATTRIBUTIONS OF UNDERSTANDING: IS THERE A ROLE FOR EPISTEMIC LUCK? (2016, background): “To the extent that understanding is about trust and deference – a connection espoused by Rosenberg (1981) and defended empirically in Wilkenfeld et al. (2016) – one might expect understanders to have a particularly robust relationship to the truth.”
Depth and deference: When and why we attribute understanding (2016, background): “Following Rosenberg (1981), we contend that understanding attributions are used for the purpose of identifying and demarcating experts to whom one should defer regarding both practical and theoretical questions.”