The nature of scientific thinking : on interpretation, explanation, and understanding
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The nature of scientific thinking : on interpretation, explanation, and understanding
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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The nature of scientific thinking
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-325) and index
Contents of Works
- Forms of understanding
- Understanding as organized beliefs
- On interpretation
- Representations
- Scientific explanation
- Causal explanations
- Other types of explanations
- The pragmatics of explanation
- Not just why-questions
- A rhetorical approach to explanation
- Pluralism and the unity of science