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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.
Price: $65.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 April 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837672626
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic
Anna Elisabeth Höhl, born in 1992, is a philosopher of science and works as a project coordinator at the institute of philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover. After degrees in physics, history and philosophy of science, she did her doctorate at Universität Bielefeld as a member of the DFG-funded Research Training Group »Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research«. Her research focusses on topics in general philosophy of science and she approaches abstract questions through detailed analyses of concrete episodes from scientific practice.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
List of Figures 9
1. Introduction 11
2. Different views on scientific understanding 29
3. Scientific understanding, scientific explanation, and why they cannot be torn apart 45
4. Is scientific understanding an ability? 91
5. Scientific understanding of the genetic regulation of vertebrate development and how zebrafish made it possible 139
6. Grasping and explaining - an account of scientific understanding 173
7. Conclusion 233
Bibliography 249