The Nature of Scientific Thinking

On Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding

Jan Faye, J Faye (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

333 Seiten

2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-99993-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.

Inhalt

Introduction to the Reader and Acknowledgements 1. Forms of Understanding 2. Understanding As Organized Beliefs 3. On Interpretation 4. Representations 5. Scientific Explanation 6. Causal Explanations 7. Other Tpes of Explanations 8. The Pragmatics of Explanation 9. Not Just Why-questions 10. A Rhetorical Approach to Explanation 11. Pluralism and The Unity of Science Literature Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2022
• Zusatzinfo: biography
• Verlagsort: Basingstoke
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 443 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-349-99993-8 / 1349999938
• ISBN-13: 978-1-349-99993-4 / 9781349999934
• Zustand: Neuware