Scientific Understanding

What It Is and How It Is Achieved

verfasst von

Anna Elisabeth Höhl

Abstract

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Philosophie

Typ

Monografie

Anzahl der Seiten

259

Publikationsdatum

18.04.2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472620 (Zugang: Offen)