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Scientific Understanding
Author | : Henk W. de Regt,Sabina Leonelli,Kai Eigner |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780822971245 |
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To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this, understanding, and how it is achieved, has received little attention in recent philosophy of science. Scientific Understanding seeks to reverse this trend by providing original and in-depth accounts of the concept of understanding and its essential role in the scientific process. To this end, the chapters in this volume explore and develop three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice. Earlier philosophers, such as Carl Hempel, dismissed understanding as subjective and pragmatic. They believed that the essence of science was to be found in scientific theories and explanations. In Scientific Understanding, the contributors maintain that we must also consider the relation between explanations and the scientists who construct and use them. They focus on understanding as the cognitive state that is a goal of explanation and on the understanding of theories and models as a means to this end. The chapters in this book highlight the multifaceted nature of the process of scientific research. The contributors examine current uses of theory, models, simulations, and experiments to evaluate the degree to which these elements contribute to understanding. Their analyses pay due attention to the roles of intelligibility, tacit knowledge, and feelings of understanding. Furthermore, they investigate how understanding is obtained within diverse scientific disciplines and examine how the acquisition of understanding depends on specific contexts, the objects of study, and the stated aims of research.
Understanding Scientific Understanding
Author | : Henk W. de Regt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190652913 |
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Putting scientific understanding center-stage within the study of scientific explanations, Understanding Scientific Understanding develops and defends a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that can describe and explain the historical variation of criteria for understanding actually employed by scientists. Book jacket.
Understanding Explanation and Scientific Knowledge
Author | : Kareem Khalifa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107195639 |
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The first comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of understanding, addressing burgeoning debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
Author | : Bernard J. Nebel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1432706101 |
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This is The most comprehensive science curriculum for beginning learners that you will find anywhere * Here are 41 lesson plans that cover all major areas of science. * Lessons are laid out as stepping stones that build knowledge and understanding logically and systematically. * Child-centered, hands-on activities at the core of all lessons bring children to observe, think, and reason. * Interest is maintained and learning is solidified by constantly connecting lessons with children's real-world experience * Skills of inquiry become habits of mind as they are used throughout. * Lessons integrate reading, writing, geography, and other subjects. * Standards, including developing a broader, supportive community of science learners come about as natural by-products of learning science in an organized way. Particular background or experience is not required. Instructions include guiding students to question, observe, think, interpret, and draw rational conclusions in addition to performing the activity. Teachers can learn along with their students and be exceptional role models in doing so. Need for special materials is minimized. Personal, on line, support is available free of charge (see front matter).
Is Science Value Free
Author | : Hugh Lacey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2005-06-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134619757 |
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Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.
Predict Observe Explain
Author | : John Haysom,Michael Bowen |
Publsiher | : NSTA Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781936137596 |
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John Haysom and Michael Bowen provide middle and high school science teachers with more than 100 student activities to help the students develop their understanding of scientific concepts. The powerful Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) strategy, field-tested by hundreds of teachers, is designed to foster student inquiry and challenge existing conceptions that students bring to the classroom.
Understanding How Science Explains the World
Author | : Kevin McCain |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2022-07-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781316518175 |
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An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.
Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy,Board on Research Data and Information,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-10-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309486163 |
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One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to independently confirm the computations or results of a previous study, some fear that it may be a symptom of a lack of rigor in science, while others argue that such an observed inconsistency can be an important precursor to new discovery. Concerns about reproducibility and replicability have been expressed in both scientific and popular media. As these concerns came to light, Congress requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to assess the extent of issues related to reproducibility and replicability and to offer recommendations for improving rigor and transparency in scientific research. Reproducibility and Replicability in Science defines reproducibility and replicability and examines the factors that may lead to non-reproducibility and non-replicability in research. Unlike the typical expectation of reproducibility between two computations, expectations about replicability are more nuanced, and in some cases a lack of replicability can aid the process of scientific discovery. This report provides recommendations to researchers, academic institutions, journals, and funders on steps they can take to improve reproducibility and replicability in science.