Scientific Progress, Understanding and Unification

In Alexandru Manafu (ed.), The Prospects for Fusion Emergence. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 313: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 313 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The paper argues that scientific progress is best characterized as an increase in scientists' understanding of the world. It also connects this idea with the claim that scientific understanding and explanation are captured in terms of unification.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,471

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Explanatory Unification and Scientific Understanding.Jennifer Wilson Mulnix - 2011 - Acta Philosophica 20 (2):383 - 404.
Explanatory Unification and Scientific Understanding.Eric Barnes - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:3 - 12.
Explaining, understanding and scientific theories.Erik Weber - 1996 - Erkenntnis 44 (1):1 - 23.
Scientific understanding after the Ingold revolution in organic chemistry.William Goodwin - 2007 - Philosophy of Science 74 (3):386-408.
Outline of a theory of scientific understanding.Gerhard Schurz & Karel Lambert - 1994 - Synthese 101 (1):65-120.
Selection and the extent of explanatory unification.Robert A. Skipper - 1999 - Philosophy of Science 66 (3):209.
Unification: What is it, how do we reach and why do we want it?Erik Weber - 1999 - Synthese 118 (3):479-499.
Scientific progress without increasing verisimilitude: In response to Niiniluoto.Darrell Patrick Rowbottom - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 51:100-104.
Explanatory unification and conceptualization.Stefan Petkov - 2015 - Synthese 192 (11):3695-3717.
Reductionism and the unification theory of explanation.Todd Jones - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (1):21-30.
Scientific Understanding in the Twentieth Century.Wesley Salmon - 2001 - Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 8:289-304.
The Role of Justification in the Ordinary Concept of Scientific Progress.Moti Mizrahi & Wesley Buckwalter - 2014 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 45 (1):151-166.
Systemism, social mechanisms, and scientific progress: A case study of the international crisis behavior project.Patrick James - 2004 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (3):352-370.
How to understand understanding in theoretical physics.Faye Jan - unknown
Incommensurability and Scientific Progress.Mark Alan Stone - 1987 - Dissertation, The University of Rochester

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-05-30

Downloads
22 (#714,863)

6 months
12 (#223,952)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Sorin Bangu
University of Bergen

Citations of this work

Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modeling.Finnur Dellsén - 2018 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (4):1261-1286.
Scientific progress: Four accounts.Finnur Dellsén - 2018 - Philosophy Compass 13 (11):e12525.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references