Armond Duwell (University of Montana)
This paper has two aims. One aim is to argue against the view that explanations of phenomena are essential to understanding them, as suggested by the received view associated with Strevens (2013), Grimm (2014), or Khalifa (2017), among others. The second is to argue that the modal view of understanding phenomena developed in Le Bihan (2017) and Duwell (forthcoming), a non-explationist view of understanding, doesn't succumb to objections that can be leveled at it.
