Description: Understanding Scientific Understanding, Hardcover by De Regt, Henk W., ISBN 0190652918, ISBN-13 9780190652913, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Carl Hempel 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 primarily a 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 by scientists. 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.
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Book Title: Understanding Scientific Understanding
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Understanding Scientific Understanding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science
Author: Henk W. De Regt
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
