ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys key topics concerning the analysis of scientific understanding. It focuses on how scientific models challenge the views that scientific understanding is a form of knowledge and that it is tied to propositional explanation. Scientists increase their understanding of phenomena with the help of heavily idealized scientific models and sometimes use these (typically non-propositional) models to explain those phenomena. The chapter also sheds light on other connections between models, explanations, and understanding, and it highlights how models showcase the importance of abilities for understanding.
