Scientific Understanding What It Is and How It Is Achieved

Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, scientific understanding is inextricably intertwined with and not possible without explanation, and understanding is not a type of propositional knowledge. Anna Elisabeth Höhl provi...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Höhl, Anna Elisabeth, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2024]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Philosophie - Aufklärung - Kritik Series
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009827237206719
Descripción
Sumario:Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, scientific understanding is inextricably intertwined with and not possible without explanation, and understanding is not a type of propositional knowledge. Anna Elisabeth Höhl provides a novel philosophical account of scientific understanding by developing and defending necessary and sufficient conditions for the understanding that scientists achieve of the phenomena they are researching. This account of scientific understanding is based on and supported by a detailed investigation of an episode from scientific practice in biology.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (260 p.)
ISBN:9783839472620