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Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved
[Dissertation]
Abstract 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... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissenschaft; Erklärung; Erkenntnistheorie; Wissenschaftstheorie; Verstehen; Philosophie
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Ability; Scientific Practice; Analytical Philosophy
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
260 S.
Schriftenreihe
Philosophy - Enlightenment - Critique, 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472620
ISSN
2941-816X
ISBN
978-3-8394-7262-0
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)