The nature of scientific thinking on interpretation, explanation, and understanding

Forms of understandingUnderstanding as organized beliefs -- On interpretation -- Representations -- Scientific explanation -- Causal explanations -- Other types of explanations -- The pragmatics of explanation -- Not just why-questions -- A rhetorical approach to explanation -- Pluralism and the uni...

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1. Verfasser: Faye, Jan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke u.a. Palgrave Macmillan 2014
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Zusammenfassung:Forms of understandingUnderstanding as organized beliefs -- On interpretation -- Representations -- Scientific explanation -- Causal explanations -- Other types of explanations -- The pragmatics of explanation -- Not just why-questions -- A rhetorical approach to explanation -- Pluralism and the unity of science.
Forms of understanding -- Understanding as organized beliefs -- On interpretation -- Representations -- Scientific explanation -- Causal explanations -- Other types of explanations -- The pragmatics of explanation -- Not just why-questions -- A rhetorical approach to explanation -- Pluralism and the unity of science
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-325) and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 333 S.
23 cm
ISBN:9781137389824
978-1-137-38982-4