What contributions can AI make to understanding in the humanities?

After the presentation led by Professor Claus Beisbart from the University of Bern, I became particularly curious about his reference to the notion of “understanding” and how it differs from knowledge. To explore this further, I looked up several resources online and discovered the following: “Understanding is the knowledge about a subject, situation, etc., or about how something works” 1 However, when I searched for the “philosophical notion of understanding”, I found the following: “Under...

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Journal
Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
Published
2024-12-06
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https://doi.org/10.58079/12v27
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Digital Humanities and Scholarship
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What contributions can AI make to understanding in the humanities?

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What contributions can AI make to understanding in the humanities?

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Abstract

After the presentation led by Professor Claus Beisbart from the University of Bern, I became particularly curious about his reference to the notion of “understanding” and how it differs from knowledge. To explore this further, I looked up several resources online and discovered the following: “Understanding is the knowledge about a subject, situation, etc., or about how something works” 1 However, when I searched for the “philosophical notion of understanding”, I found the following: “Under...

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