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.

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 348
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780226457994

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Published in 1962, Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is one of the most important works of the 20th century. When he died, Kuhn left an unfinished sequel and a group of essays written since 1970. "The Road since Structure" includes these essays, along with Kuhn's replies to criticism and an interview with Kuhn before his death in 1996. Photos.

Science and the Quest for Reality

Science and the Quest for Reality
Title Science and the Quest for Reality PDF eBook
Author Alfred I. Tauber
Publisher Springer
Pages 431
Release 2016-07-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1349252492

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Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts. The anthology is divided between, firstly, characterizing science as an intellectual activity and, secondly, defining its social role. The philosophical and historical vicissitudes of science's truth claims has raised profound questions concerning the role of science in society beyond its technological innovations. The deeper philosophical issues thus complement the critical inquiry concerning the broader social and ethical influence of contemporary science. In the tradition of the 'Main Trends of the Modern World' series, this volume includes both classical and contemporary works on the subject.

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
Genre
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The Road

The Road
Title The Road PDF eBook
Author Cormac McCarthy
Publisher Vintage Books
Pages 297
Release 2007
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307386457

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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

Celebrity

Celebrity
Title Celebrity PDF eBook
Author Milly Williamson
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 216
Release 2016-10-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1509511431

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It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.

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
ISBN

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