Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved

Anna Elisabeth Höhl

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2024

Scientific Understanding

What It Is and How It Is Achieved

Anna Elisabeth Höhl

Volume 2 in the series Philosophie - Aufklärung - Kritik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472620

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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.

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
2. Different views on scientific understanding Open Access Download PDF	29
3. Scientific understanding, scientific explanation, and why they cannot be torn apart Open Access Download PDF	45
4. Is scientific understanding an ability? Open Access Download PDF	91
5. Scientific understanding of the genetic regulation of vertebrate development and how zebrafish made it possible Open Access Download PDF	139
6. Grasping and explaining – an account of scientific understanding Open Access Download PDF	173
7. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	233
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	249

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 260
Keywords: Explanation; Ability; Scientific Practice; Science; Philosophy of Science; Analytical Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy

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Published: April 24, 2024
ISBN: 9783839472620