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Understanding scientific understanding /

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Understanding is a central aim of science and highly important in present-day society. But what precisely is scientific understanding and how can it be achieved? This book answers these questions, through philosophical analysis and historical case studies, and presents a philosophical theory of scie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Regt, Henk W. de (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Reflection (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Sciences > Philosophie.
Réflexion (Philosophie)
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Science > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the desire to understand
  • Understanding and the aims of science
  • Explanatory understanding : a plurality of models
  • A contextual theory of scientif understanding
  • Intelligibility and metaphysics : understanding gravitation
  • Models and mechanisms : physical understanding in the nineteenth century
  • Visualizability and intelligibility : insight in the quantum world
  • Conclusion : the many faces of understanding.