Scientific understanding : philosophical perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009. |
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| Description: | ix, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7902896 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Focusing on Scientific Understanding
- Part I. Understanding, Explanation, and Intelligibility
- 2. Understanding and Scientific Explanation
- 3. Understanding without Explanation
- 4. Ontological Principles and the Intelligibility of Epistemic Activities
- 5. Reliability and the Sense of Understanding
- 6. The Illusion of Depth of Understanding in Science
- Part II. Understanding and Models
- 7. Understanding in Physics and Biology: From the Abstract to the Concrete
- 8. Understanding by Modeling: An Objectual Approach
- 9. The Great Deluge: Simulation Modeling and Scientific Understanding
- Part III. Understanding in Scientific Practices
- 10. Understanding in Biology: The Impure Nature of Biological Knowledge
- 11. Understanding in Economics: Gray-Box Models
- 12. Understanding in Physics: Bottom-Up versus Top-Down
- 13. Understanding in the Engineering Sciences: Interpretive Structures
- 14. Understanding in Psychology: Is Understanding a Surplus?
- 15. Understanding in Political Science: The Plurality of Epistemic Interests
- 16. Understanding in Historical Science: Intelligibility and Judgment
- Contributors
- Index
