Scientific Understanding : : What It Is and How It Is Achieved / / Anna Elisabeth Höhl.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophie - Aufklärung - Kritik Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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