The nature of scientific thinking : on interpretation, explanation and understanding /

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Main Author: Faye, Jan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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300 |a xiv, 333 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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