Is Verstehen Scientific Understanding?

Understanding Is More Than Scientific Skill

Too many of today's supts. concern themselves solely with such headaches as weather, manpower, money limitations and p l a y e r interference. These c o n s i d e r a t i o n s are very important, yet most of us have been coping with them for the last 30 years. Of late, we have been aided by radically improved chemicals, increased budgets and other new and effective aids. We combat the intrusio...

Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding

Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages∗

According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter was ranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web researchers to spread information. In order to understand how Twitter is practically used for spreading scientific messages, we captured tweets containing the official hashtags of three conferences and studied (1) the type of content that researchers are more likely to tweet, (2) how t...

KiMM - Lernen und Verstehen mit Tangible Media

Bezugnehmend auf das McLuhan’sche Postulat der Medien als menschliche Extensionen werden praktische Beispiele der Entwicklung von Tangible Media und deren konkreter Einsatz in Unterrichtsprojekten im Regelunterricht mit Vorschulund Schulkindern im Alter ab 5 Jahren vorgestellt und diskutiert.

Scientific progress: Knowledge versus understanding.

What is scientific progress? On Alexander Bird's epistemic account of scientific progress, an episode in science is progressive precisely when there is more scientific knowledge at the end of the episode than at the beginning. Using Bird's epistemic account as a foil, this paper develops an alternative understanding-based account on which an episode in science is progressive precisely when scie...