Kuhn S Structure Of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On

Author : William J. Devlin,Alisa Bokulich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
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Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319133836

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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On by William J. Devlin,Alisa Bokulich Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
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Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226458144

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

“One of the most influential books of the 20th century,” the landmark study in the history of science with a new introduction by philosopher Ian Hacking (Guardian, UK). First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ”reshaped our understanding of the scientific enterprise and human inquiry in general.” In it, he challenged long-standing assumptions about scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but instead occur outside of “normal science.” Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in today’s biotech age (Science). This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including “paradigm” and “incommensurability,” and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. This newly designed edition also includes an expanded and updated index.

Author : Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 211 pages
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Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226317205

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Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty by Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn,Michel Foucault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
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Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 7500426526

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn,Michel Foucault Pdf

Author : Vasso Kindi,Theodore Arabatzis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136243202

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Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited by Vasso Kindi,Theodore Arabatzis Pdf

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.

Author : Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226317175

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Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty by Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston Pdf

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. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn’s work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions itself marks no less of a paradigm shift than those it describes. In Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” at Fifty, leading social scientists and philosophers explore the origins of Kuhn’s masterwork and its legacy fifty years on. These essays exhume important historical context for Kuhn’s work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and Kuhn’s own intellectual biography: his experiences as a physics graduate student, his close relationship with psychologists before and after the publication of Structure, and the Cold War framework of terms such as “world view” and “paradigm.”

Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
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Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781316512173

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Kuhn's Intellectual Path by K. Brad Wray Pdf

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
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Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000148356

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." --Nicholas Wade, Science "Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." --William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review "Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . . . Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work." --Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Among the most influential academic books in this century." -- Choice --One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement Thomas S. Kuhn was the Laurence Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution.

Author : Otto Neurath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
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Release : 1968
Category : Econometrics
ISBN : UOM:39015004129907

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International Encyclopedia of Unified Science by Otto Neurath Pdf

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
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Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226458113

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach. With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age. This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. Newly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107604667

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What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

"What Is Life?" is Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. His essay, "Mind and Matter," investigates what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. "Autobiographical Sketches" offers a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.

Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393082302

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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Pdf

"Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again." —Science In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group," they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum entanglement in terms of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading. As David Kaiser reveals, these unlikely heroes spun modern physics in a new direction, forcing mainstream physicists to pay attention to the strange but exciting underpinnings of quantum theory.

Author : John Preston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441198891

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Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' by John Preston Pdf

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is arguably one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a key text in the philosophy and history of science. Kuhn transformed the philosophy and history of science in the twentieth century in an irrevocable way and still provides an important alternative to formalist approaches in the philosophy of science. In Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions': A Reader's Guide, John Preston offers a clear and thorough account of this key philosophical work. The book offers a detailed review of the key themes and a lucid commentary that will enable readers to rapidly navigate the text. The guide explores the complex and important ideas inherent in the text and provides a cogent survey of the reception and influence of Kuhn's work.

Author : Shortcut Edition
Publisher : Shortcut Edition
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SUMMARY - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn by Shortcut Edition Pdf

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. *As you read this summary, you will discover that scientific progress consists less in understanding how nature works than in developing a theoretical framework accepted by the scientific community. *You will also discover that : science needs a theoretical framework to advance; scientific revolutions are caused not by discoveries, but by crises within the scientific community; science regularly makes a clean sweep of the past and the mistakes it has made; scientific progress is not based on the search for truth, but on scientists' ideas of truth. *The study of the history of science has completely changed the vision of Thomas Kuhn, PhD in physics. Science is often seen from a purely cognitive perspective: a set of discoveries about how nature works and how it is made possible to do so. However, history shows that many of yesterday's scientific discoveries have no value today. Is the aim of science to know how nature works, Thomas Kuhn asks, or only to interpret it according to current theories? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139503464

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Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology by K. Brad Wray Pdf

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.