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Understanding Scientific Understanding

Henk de Regt
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      It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what does it mean to achieve this understanding? What precisely is scientific understanding? These are philosophical questions that have not yet received satisfactory answers. While there has been an ongoing debate about the nature of scientific explanation since CarlHempel advanced his covering-law model in 1948, the related notion of understanding has been largely neglected, because most philosophers regarded understanding as merely a subjective by-product of objective explanations. By contrast, this book puts scientific understanding center stage. It is primarilya philosophical study, but also contains detailed historical case studies of scientific practice. In contrast to most existing studies in this area, it takes into account scientists' views and analyzes their role in scientific debate and development. The aim of Understanding Scientific Understanding is to develop and defend a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that can describe and explain the historical variation of criteria for understanding actually employed byscientists. The theory does justice to the insights of such famous physicists as Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, while bringing much-needed conceptual rigor to their intuitions. The scope of the proposed account of understanding is the natural sciences: while the detailed case studies derive from physics,examples from other sciences are presented to illustrate its wider validity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Henk de Regt EAN: 9780197510261 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 450 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-03-20 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of science

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      Henk W. de Regt is Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences at the Instititute for Science in Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
      It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what does it mean to achieve this understanding? What precisely is scientific understanding? These are philosophical questions that have not yet received satisfactory answers. While there has been an ongoing debate about the nature of scientific explanation since CarlHempel advanced his covering-law model in 1948, the related notion of understanding has been largely neglected, because most philosophers regarded understanding as merely a subjective by-product of objective explanations. By contrast, this book puts scientific understanding center stage. It is primarilya philosophical study, but also contains detailed historical case studies of scientific practice. In contrast to most existing studies in this area, it takes into account scientists' views and analyzes their role in scientific debate and development. The aim of Understanding Scientific Understanding is to develop and defend a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that can describe and explain the historical variation of criteria for understanding actually employed byscientists. The theory does justice to the insights of such famous physicists as Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, while bringing much-needed conceptual rigor to their intuitions. The scope of the proposed account of understanding is the natural sciences: while the detailed case studies derive from physics,examples from other sciences are presented to illustrate its wider validity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Henk de Regt EAN: 9780197510261 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 450 g HEIGHT: 233 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-03-20 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of science

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      Henk W. de Regt is Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences at the Instititute for Science in Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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