*Could neuroscience explain everything the mind does and still miss what it means to understand?*
Gordon Graham argues that imagination, practical skill, and aesthetic understanding reveal a distinction between explaining the mechanisms of thought and judging its truth, value, or insight.
0:00 Art Offers Another View of the Mind-Body Problem
1:21 Imagination Does Not Depend on Correspondence
3:24 Prediction Does Not Establish Understanding
4:33 Scientific Imperialism and the Limits of Explanatory Promises
*Gordon Graham* is Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary and an ordained Anglican priest. His academic interests include aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the Scottish philosophical tradition.
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