How science tracks understanding

• Authors: Federica Isabella Malfatti

Abstracts

EN

This review article discusses the book Understanding How Science Explains the World by Kevin McCain, published by Cambridge University Press (2022). With an impressive combination of clarity and depth, McCain provides the reader with a firm grasp of how science works, of what science aims to achieve, and of what makes science a successful epistemic enterprise. The review article reconstructs the book’s overall dialectic and identifies one potential point of tension which concerns the role of truth or accuracy in scientific knowledge.

Keywords

EN

Truth; scientific realism; understanding; Explanation; scientific knowledge

• Publisher: Copernicus Center Press
• Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 74
• Pages: 317-320

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Federica Isabella Malfatti

• University of Innsbruck

References

• McCain, K., 2022. Understanding: How Science Explains the World [Online], Understanding Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108997027.

Identifiers

DOI

10.59203/zfn.74.685

Biblioteka Nauki

31804110