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The nature of scientific thinking : on interpretation, explanation and understanding /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faye, Jan (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Forms of understanding
  • Understanding as organized beliefs
  • On interpretation
  • Representations
  • Scientific explanation
  • Causal explanations
  • Other types of explanations
  • The pragmatics of explanation
  • Not just why-questions
  • A rhetorical approach to explanation
  • Pluralism and the unity of science.