Henk de Regt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The understanding that comes with scientific explanation is regarded as one of the central epistemic aims of science. In my Understanding Scientific Understanding (OUP, 2017) I have argued that scientists achieve understanding of phenomena by basing their explanations on intelligible theories, where intelligibility relates to scientists' abilities: theories are intelligible if scientists have the skills to use those theories in fruitful ways. In this paper, I address the question of how the aim of understanding relates to other epistemic aims of science, and compare my account of these aims to the views of my co-symposiasts.
