UID:
almafu_9959243246702883
Format:
1 online resource (365 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-6279-9
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0-8229-7124-0
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Focusing on Scientific Understanding by Henk W. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner -- Part I - Understanding, Explanation, and Intelligibility -- 2 - Understanding and Scientific Explanation by Henk W. de Regt -- 3 - Understanding without Explanation by Peter Lipton -- 4 - Ontological Principles and the Intelligibility of Epistemic Activities by Moses Chang -- 5 - Reliability and the Sense of Understanding by Stephen R. Grimm -- 6 - The Illusion of Depth of Understanding by Petri Ylikpski -- Part II - Understanding and Models -- 7 - Understanding in Physics and Biology: From the Abstract to the Concrete by Margaret Morrison -- 8 - Understanding by Modeling: An Objectual Approach by Tarja Knuuttila and Martina Merz -- 9 -The Great Deluge: Simulation Modeling and Scientific Understanding by Johannes Lenhard -- Part III - Understanding in Scientific Practices -- 10 - Understanding in Biology: The Impure Nature of Biological Knowledge by Sabina Leonelli -- 11 - Understanding in Economics: Gray-Box Models by Marcel Boumans -- 12 - Understanding in Physics: Bottom-Up versus Top-Down by Dennis Dieks -- 13 - Understanding in the Engineering Sciences: Interpretative Structures by Mieke Boon -- 14 - Understanding in Psychology: Is Understanding a Surplus? by Kai Eigner -- 15 - Understanding in Political Science: The Plurality of Epistemic Interests by Jeroen van Bouwel -- 16 - Understanding in Historical Science: Intelligibility and Judgment by Edwin Koster -- Contributors -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-04639-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-4378-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
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