Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty
Title Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Richards
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 211
Release 2016-03-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 022631720X

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Thomas S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the 'paradigm shift,' social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. The essays in this book exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics and Kuhn's own intellectual biography.

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
Title Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On PDF eBook
Author William J. Devlin
Publisher Springer
Pages 204
Release 2015-05-18
Genre Science
ISBN 3319133837

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In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Pages 172
Release 1969
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Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
Title Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited PDF eBook
Author Vasso Kindi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 272
Release 2013-05-20
Genre Science
ISBN 1136243208

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The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure’s publication. There has been extensive research on all of the major issues concerning the development of science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a number of topics relevant to Structure’s concerns, such as the nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the Structure’s significance in the canon of philosophy of science.

The Road Since Structure

The Road Since Structure
Title The Road Since Structure PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 356
Release 2000-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780226457987

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Divided into three parts, this work is a record of the direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. It consists of essays in which he refines the basic concepts set forth in "Structure"--Paradigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress.

International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
Title International Encyclopedia of Unified Science PDF eBook
Author Otto Neurath
Publisher
Pages 144
Release 1938
Genre Econometrics
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Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology

Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology
Title Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology PDF eBook
Author K. Brad Wray
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 245
Release 2011-09-29
Genre Science
ISBN 1139503464

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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for developing an epistemology of science that takes account of the constructive role that social factors play in scientific inquiry. He examines the core concepts of Structure and explains the main characteristics of both Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology, relating Structure to Kuhn's developed view presented in his later writings. The discussion includes analyses of the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the plate tectonics revolution in geology. The book will be useful for scholars working in science studies, sociologists and historians of science as well as philosophers of science.