Book ID: CBB000952759

Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives (2009)

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Regt, Henk W. de (Editor)
Leonelli, Sabina (Editor)
Eigner, Kai (Editor)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: ix + 352 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Stegenga, Jacob (2011) Review of "Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 578). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dear, Peter Robert
Salis, Fiora
Moll, Remington J.
Kaplan, David M.
Nyrup, Rune
Rice, Collin C.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Chicago Press
Palgrave Macmillan
MIT Press
Kluwer Academic
Cincinnati, University of
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Models and modeling in science
Methodology of science; scientific method
Intelligibility
Epistemology
People
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Maxwell, James Clerk
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Herschel, John Frederick William
Galton, Francis
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
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