Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
Table of Content
Introduction to the Reader and Acknowledgements 1. Forms of Understanding 2. Understanding As Organized Beliefs 3. On Interpretation 4. Representations 5. Scientific Explanation 6. Causal Explanations 7. Other Tpes of Explanations 8. The Pragmatics of Explanation 9. Not Just Why-questions 10. A Rhetorical Approach to Explanation 11. Pluralism and The Unity of Science Literature NotesAbout the author
Jan Faye is a philosopher of science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written and edited a number of books in English as well as in Danish. Recently, he publishedAfter Postmodernism (2012), a book about the philosophy of the humanities, in which he argues that a pragmatic-naturalist understanding of humanistic research overcomes the traditional split in our views of the natural sciences and the humanities.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 333 ● ISBN 9781137389831 ● File size 1.4 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3253887 ● Copy protection Social DRM