Understanding Scientific Understanding by Henk de Regt is a philosophical study of the central goal of science: obtaining scientific understanding. This study book examines how understanding in the natural sciences is achieved and provides a theoretical framework based on philosophical analysis and historical case studies.
Description
Scientific understanding is an essential pursuit within science and indispensable in contemporary society. This book explores what scientific understanding precisely entails and how it can be realized. Rather than viewing understanding as merely a subjective by-product of scientific explanation, this work places understanding at the center. It combines philosophical reflection with historical practice examples, also incorporating the perspectives of scientists such as Heisenberg and Feynman. The result is a contextual theory of scientific understanding that explains the variation in criteria over time and between scientific fields, with emphasis on the natural sciences.
Product specifications
- Author: Henk de Regt (Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication date: 2020-03-20
- Number of pages: 320
- ISBN: 9780197510261
- Topic: Philosophy of science
- BISAC: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
About the author
Henk W. de Regt is Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Science in Society of Radboud University Nijmegen.