Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved

Anna Elisabeth Höhl

doi:10.14361/9783839472620

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Original language	English
Number of pages	259
ISBN (electronic)	9783839472620
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2024

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Ability, Analytical philosophy, Epistemology, Explanation, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, Science, Scientific practice, Understanding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Arts and Humanities(all)
General Arts and Humanities

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Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved. / Höhl, Anna Elisabeth.
2024. 259 p.

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Höhl, AE 2024, Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472620

Höhl, A. E. (2024). Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472620

Höhl AE. Scientific Understanding: What It Is and How It Is Achieved. 2024. 259 p. doi: 10.14361/9783839472620

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