Preface ..................................................... ix
1 Focusing on Scientific Understanding
HENK W. DE REGT, SABINA LEONELLI, AND KAI EIGNER ............. 1
Part I. Understanding, Explanation, and Intelligibility
2 Understanding and Scientific Explanation
HENK W. DE REGT ............................................. 21
3 Understanding without Explanation
PETER LIPTON ................................................ 43
4 Ontological Principles and the Intelligibility of
Epistemic Activities
HASOK CHANG ................................................. 64
5 Reliability and the Sense of Understanding
STEPHEN R. GRIMM ............................................ 83
6 The Illusion of Depth of Understanding in Science
PETRI YLIKOSKI ............................................. 100
Part II. Understanding and Models
7 Understanding in Physics and Biology: From the Abstract
to the Concrete
MARGARET MORRISON .......................................... 123
8 Understanding by Modeling: An Objectual Approach
TARJA KNUUTTILA AND MARTINA MERZ ........................... 146
9 The Great Deluge: Simulation Modeling and Scientific
Understanding
JOHANNES LENHARD ........................................... 169
Part III. Understanding in Scientific Practices
10 Understanding in Biology: The Impure Nature of Biological
Knowledge
SABINA LEONELLI ............................................ 189
11 Understanding in Economics: Gray-Box Models
MARCEL BOUMANS ............................................. 210
12 Understanding in Physics: Bottom-Up versus Top-Down
DENNIS DIEKS ............................................... 230
13 Understanding in the Engineering Sciences: Interpretive
Structures mieke boon ...................................... 249
MIEKE BOON
14 Understanding in Psychology: Is Understanding a Surplus?
KAI EIGNER ................................................. 271
15 Understanding in Political Science: The Plurality of
Epistemic Interests
JEROEN VAN BOUWEL .......................................... 298
16 Understanding in Historical Science: Intelligibility and
Judgment
EDWIN KOSTER ............................................... 314
Contributors ............................................... 335
Index ...................................................... 339
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