Progresul ştiinţei ca acumulare a cunoaşterii şi spor de înţelegere
Progress of Science as Knowledge Accumulation and Increment of Understanding

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade the philosophical analysis of scientific progress is dominated by an epistemic approach, promoted especially by Alexander Bird. Bird’s main idea is that scientific progress consists in increasing knowledge, and not in increasing truth or verisimilitude, or solving more scientificpuzzles. There are now several attempts to enhance or complement this approach, mainly by integrating the concept of understanding in the traditional discussion about knowledge and scientific progress. I examine here some of those attempts, and I try to show that the concept of understanding is still too vague to be really useful as an instrument able to illuminate the progress of science.

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