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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag
[2024]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Philosophie - Aufklärung - Kritik Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009827237206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Different views on scientific understanding
- 3. Scientific understanding, scientific explanation, and why they cannot be torn apart
- 4. Is scientific understanding an ability?
- 5. Scientific understanding of the genetic regulation of vertebrate development and how zebrafish made it possible
- 6. Grasping and explaining – an account of scientific understanding
- 7. Conclusion
- Bibliography
