The Nature of Scientific Thinking: On Interpretation, Explanation, and Understanding

by JanFaye (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2014

  $146.90

  Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.