Contents
Preface
1 - Focusing on Scientific Understanding by Henk W. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner
Part I - Understanding, Explanation, and Intelligibility
2 - Understanding and Scientific Explanation by Henk W. de Regt
3 - Understanding without Explanation by Peter Lipton
4 - Ontological Principles and the Intelligibility of Epistemic Activities by Moses Chang
5 - Reliability and the Sense of Understanding by Stephen R. Grimm
6 - The Illusion of Depth of Understanding by Petri Ylikpski
Part II - Understanding and Models
7 - Understanding in Physics and Biology: From the Abstract to the Concrete by Margaret Morrison
8 - Understanding by Modeling: An Objectual Approach by Tarja Knuuttila and Martina Merz
9 -The Great Deluge: Simulation Modeling and Scientific Understanding by Johannes Lenhard
Part III - Understanding in Scientific Practices
10 - Understanding in Biology: The Impure Nature of Biological Knowledge by Sabina Leonelli
11 - Understanding in Economics: Gray-Box Models by Marcel Boumans
12 - Understanding in Physics: Bottom-Up versus Top-Down by Dennis Dieks
13 - Understanding in the Engineering Sciences: Interpretative Structures by Mieke Boon
14 - Understanding in Psychology: Is Understanding a Surplus? by Kai Eigner
15 - Understanding in Political Science: The Plurality of Epistemic Interests by Jeroen van Bouwel
16 - Understanding in Historical Science: Intelligibility and Judgment by Edwin Koster
Contributors
Index