Understanding and Intuition in Science and Morality

My essay starts from an account of scientific understanding given by Regt in his paper “Understanding in science and beyond”. My intention here is not to oppose his thesis, that understanding is also a matter of skill, or to propose another thesis on scientific understanding; rather, my aim is to see if – based on the very clear account of scientific understanding given by Regt – also a similar account of moral understanding could be developed. First, I am going to present, in short, Regt’s account of scientific understanding, then I will present some recent accounts on moral understanding, and then I will draw a parallel between scientific understanding, as proposed by Regt, and moral understanding.