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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Understanding Scientific Understanding
- Publication Date
- 2020-02-01
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780197510261
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0197510264
ISBN-13
9780197510261
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038278399
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Understanding Scientific Understanding
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, General
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science
Series
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
34.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A remarkable book... a magnificent example of how history and philosophy of science can be productively integrated., "A remarkable book... a magnificent example of how history and philosophy of science can be productively integrated." --Lakatos Award Committee"This is a superb book on the timely topic of understanding by one of its main commentators and leading scholars over the years. It constitutes a thorough, intricate, detailed and well-argued development of the original and very fertile position of the author on the topic." --Mauricio Suarez, Complutense University Madrid"This book--which creatively synthesizes two decades of his work into an elegant and provocative account of scientific understanding--is a much anticipated and welcome addition to the literature." --Kareem Khalifa, Notre Dame Philosophical Review"A unique account of scientific understanding, with an eye on how understanding is achieved. This account--which draws from two decades of research--is presented in a form that is pleasant to read, accessible to a variety of readers, embedded into the longstanding philosophical debate about scientific explanations, and buttressed with numerous examples and three in-depth case studies from the history of physics." --Insa Lawler, Metascience"When it comes to getting clear on scientific understanding there is no better source to consult than Henk W. de Regt's Understanding Scientific Understanding. It is no exaggeration to say that this book is by far the best philosophical treatment of the concept of scientific understanding yet produced." --Kevin McCain, Science & Education
Dewey Decimal
501
Table Of Content
PrefaceAcknowledgementChapter 1. Introduction: The desire to understandChapter 2. Understanding and the aims of science2.1. The neglect of understanding2.2. Understanding as an epistemic skill2.3. Intelligibility, values, and objectivity2.4. Understanding: a means and an endChapter 3. Explanatory understanding: A plurality of models3.1. From covering law explanation to unificatory understanding3.2. Causal conceptions of explanatory understanding3.3. Is causal and unificatory understanding complementary?3.4. Unifying the plurality of modes of explanationChapter 4. A contextual theory of scientific understanding4.1. Understanding phenomena with intelligible theories4.2. Criteria for intelligibility4.3. Conceptual tools for understanding4.4. The context-dependence of understanding4.4.1. Contextuality and historical dynamics4.4.2. Contextuality and the intuitions of philosophers4.4.3. Contextuality and pragmatics4.5. Reduction, realism and understanding4.5.1. Understanding and realism4.5.2. Understanding and reduction4.6. Contextualism: risky relativism?Chapter 5. Metaphysics and intelligibility: Understanding gravitation5.1. The (un)intelligibility of Newton's theory of universal gravitation5.2. The seventeenth-century debate on gravitation5.2.1. Isaac Newton: reluctant revolutionary5.2.2. Christiaan Huygens: the conscience of corpuscularism5.3. Actio in distans and intelligibility after Newton5.4. Metaphysics as a resource for scientific understandingChapter 6. Models and mechanisms: Physical understanding in the nineteenth century6.1. Mechanical modeling in nineteenth-century physics6.1.1. William Thomson: master modeler6.1.2. James Clerk Maxwell: advocate of analogies6.1.3. Ludwig Boltzmann: promoter of pictures6.2. Molecular models for understanding gas phenomena6.3. Boltzmann' Bildtheorie: a pragmatic view of understanding6.4. The uses and limitations of mechanical modelsChapter 7. Visualizability and intelligibility: Insight into the quantum world7.1. Visualizability and intelligibility in classical physics7.2. Quantum theory and the waning of Anschaulichkeit7.3. The new quantum mechanics: a struggle for intelligibility7.4. Electron spin: the power of visualization7.5. Visualization in post-war quantum physics7.6. Visualization as a tool for understandingChapter 8. Conclusion: the many faces of understandingBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Understanding is a central aim of science and highly important in present-day society. But what precisely is scientific understanding and how can it be achieved? This book answers these questions, through philosophical analysis and historical case studies, and presents a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that highlights its contextual nature., 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.
LC Classification Number
Q175.R348 2020
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