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Scientific Understanding

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Author : Anna Elisabeth Höhl
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2024-04-02

Scientific Understanding written by Anna Elisabeth Höhl and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Philosophy categories.

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.

Scientific Understanding

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Author : Henk W. de Regt
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2014-08-09

Scientific Understanding written by Henk W. de Regt and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-09 with Science categories.

To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this, understanding, and how it is achieved, has received little attention in recent philosophy of science. Scientific Understanding seeks to reverse this trend by providing original and in-depth accounts of the concept of understanding and its essential role in the scientific process. To this end, the chapters in this volume explore and develop three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice. Earlier philosophers, such as Carl Hempel, dismissed understanding as subjective and pragmatic. They believed that the essence of science was to be found in scientific theories and explanations. In Scientific Understanding, the contributors maintain that we must also consider the relation between explanations and the scientists who construct and use them. They focus on understanding as the cognitive state that is a goal of explanation and on the understanding of theories and models as a means to this end. The chapters in this book highlight the multifaceted nature of the process of scientific research. The contributors examine current uses of theory, models, simulations, and experiments to evaluate the degree to which these elements contribute to understanding. Their analyses pay due attention to the roles of intelligibility, tacit knowledge, and feelings of understanding. Furthermore, they investigate how understanding is obtained within diverse scientific disciplines and examine how the acquisition of understanding depends on specific contexts, the objects of study, and the stated aims of research.

Scientific Understanding And Representation

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Author : Insa Lawler
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-13

Scientific Understanding And Representation written by Insa Lawler and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Science categories.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring several articles in an engaging ‘critical conversation’ format, the volume integrates discussions about understanding and representation with perennial issues in the philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific knowledge, idealizations, scientific realism, scientific inference, and scientific progress. In the philosophy of science, questions of scientific understanding and scientific representation have only recently been put in dialogue with each other. The chapters advance these discussions from a variety of fresh perspectives. They range from case studies in physics, chemistry, and neuroscience to the representational challenges of machine learning models; from special forms of representation such as maps and topological models to the relation between understanding and explanation; and from the role of idealized representations to the role of representation and understanding in scientific progress. Scientific Understanding and Representation will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of mathematics, and epistemology.

Scientific Explanation And Understanding

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Author : Nicholas Rescher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

Scientific Explanation And Understanding written by Nicholas Rescher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Science categories.

Explaining Science S Success

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Author : John Wright
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-11

Explaining Science S Success written by John Wright and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Philosophy categories.

Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, advanced on more or less a priori grounds theories that subsequently turned out to be highly empirically successful. In this book the philosopher of science, John Wright delves deep into science's methodology to offer an explanation for this remarkable success story.

Scientific Knowledge

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Author : Janet A. Kourany
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Scientific Knowledge written by Janet A. Kourany and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Education categories.

* Broad ranging anthology that presents the best classical and contemporary material within the context of current trends in the philosophy of science (can be used as a core text or a supplemental reader).

Science

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Author : John Michels (Journalist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with Science categories.

Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

Theology As Science And Its Present Position And Prospects In The Reformed Church

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Author : William Hastie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

Theology As Science And Its Present Position And Prospects In The Reformed Church written by William Hastie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Calvinism categories.

Knowledge Illustrated Scientific News

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Author : Edwin Sharpe Grew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

Knowledge Illustrated Scientific News written by Edwin Sharpe Grew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Science categories.

Building Foundations Of Scientific Understanding

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Author : Bernard J. Nebel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-24

Building Foundations Of Scientific Understanding written by Bernard J. Nebel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-24 with Education categories.

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding (BFSU) - BFSU is for teachers, homeschoolers, and other educators to deliver a first-rate science education to K-8 students and older beginning-science learners. Vol. I (here) is for grades K-2 and older beginning-science learners. Volumes II and III are for grades 3-5, and 6-8, and older progressing science learners. BFSU provides both teaching methodologies and detailed lesson plans embracing and integrating all the major areas of science. BFSU lessons follow structured learning progressions that build knowledge and develop understanding in systematic incremental steps. BFSU lessons all center around hands-on experience and real-world observations. In turn, they draw students to exercise their minds in thinking and drawing rational conclusions from what they observe/experience. Therefore, in following BFSU, students will be guided toward conceptual understanding of crosscutting concepts and ideas of science, as well as factual knowledge, and they will develop mind skills of scientific thinking and logical reasoning in the process. Implementing BFSU requires no particular background in either science or teaching. Teachers/parents can learn along with their children and be excellent role models in doing so. Already widely used and acclaimed in its 1st edition form, this second edition of BFSU contains added elements that will make it more useful in bringing students to master the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).