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1. 1. Articulating The World

   Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

   

   The book argues that conceptual understanding in science is best seen not as the possession of internal representations but as a practice of articulating the world through skillful engagement with materials, instruments, and social practices; it develops an account of understanding as the capacity to deploy concepts and techniques to make distinctions, manipulate phenomena, and render them intelligible, uses historical and laboratory-case studies to show how objectivity and normativity emerge from embodied, distributed practices, and challenges representationalist and purely epistemic accounts by offering a naturalized, practice-centered reconciliation of the scientific and manifest images.

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2. 2. Engaging Science

   How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically

   

   This book argues for a practice-centered, naturalistic philosophy of science that foregrounds the skills, instruments, material manipulations, and social arrangements through which scientific knowledge is actually produced. Rejecting the idea that science is best understood solely as theory-construction or logical inference, it analyzes how tacit knowledge, experimental craft, representational practices, and institutional interactions jointly secure reliable claims about the world. Drawing on case studies and philosophical resources from pragmatism and the social studies of science, it shows how engagement with everyday scientific work reshapes familiar philosophical questions about objectivity, explanation, and scientific realism.

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