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

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.

Author: J. Faye
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/09/2014
Pages: 333
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781137389824

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1335

About the Author
Jan Faye is a philosopher of science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written and edited a number of books in English as well as in Danish. Recently, he published After Postmodernism (2012), a book about the philosophy of the humanities, in which he argues that a pragmatic-naturalist understanding of humanistic research overcomes the traditional split in our views of the natural sciences and the humanities.