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.
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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 NotesSobre o autor
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.
Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 333 ● ISBN 9781137389831 ● Tamanho do arquivo 1.4 MB ● Editora Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Cidade London ● País GB ● Publicado 2016 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 3253887 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social