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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1303903719
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
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Release : 1970
Category : Historia de la fisica
ISBN : 0226458032
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312972800
Author : Shortcut Edition
Publisher : Shortcut Edition
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
* 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 : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226458144
“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 : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226458113
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 : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09T22:59:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781669351771
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The scientific method is cumulative, and it progressess towards the truth. However, a revolution changes the domain, and the language in which we speak about some aspect of nature. It redirects to a new portion of nature to study. #2 After Structure, American scholarship in philosophy and the sciences became dominated by sociological studies of science. This development was not welcomed by many younger workers, who felt that Kuhn had denigrated the importance of truth in science. #3 The book changed the image of science, and it forever changed the way people viewed science. It changed the way people viewed science because it undermined all the positivist doctrines implicit in the Vienna Circle project. #4 The essay that follows is the first full published report on a project that I had started years ago. It was a shift from physics to history of science, and then back to the more philosophical concerns that had initially drawn me to history.
Author : Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226355511
Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work. Bibliography.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226317175
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 : Charles William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:11712111
Author : Jo Hedesan,Joseph Tendler
Publisher : Macat Library
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Philosophy and science
ISBN : 1912127857
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis of shifts in scientific thinking, Kuhn questioned the prevailing view that science was an unbroken progression towards the truth. Progress was actually made, he argued, via "paradigm shifts," meaning that evidence that existing scientific models are flawed slowly accumulates - in the face, at first, of opposition and doubt - until it finally results in a crisis that forces the development of a new model. This development, in turn, produces a period of rapid change - "extraordinary science," Kuhn terms it - before an eventual return to "normal science" begins the process whereby the whole cycle eventually repeats itself. This portrayal of science as the product of successive revolutions was the product of rigorous but imaginative critical thinking. It was at odds with science's self-image as a set of disciplines that constantly evolve and progress via the process of building on existing knowledge. Kuhn's highly creative re-imagining of that image has proved enduringly influential - and is the direct product of the author's ability to produce a novel explanation for existing evidence and to redefine issues so as to see them in new ways.
Author : William J. Devlin,Alisa Bokulich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319133836
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 : James A. Marcum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441148353
The influence of Thomas Kuhn (1922 -1996) on the history and philosophy of science has been truly enormous. In 1962, Kuhn's famous work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, helped to inaugurate a revolution - the historiographic revolution - in the latter half of the twentieth century, providing a new understanding of science in which 'paradigm shifts' (scientific revolutions) are punctuated with periods of stasis (normal science). Kuhn's revolution not only had a huge impact on the history and philosophy of science but on other disciplines as well, including sociology, education, economics, theology, and even science policy. James A. Marcum's book focuses on the following questions: What exactly was Kuhn's historiographic revolution? How did it come about? Why did it have the impact it did? What, if any, will its future impact be for both academia and society? At the heart of the answers to these questions is the person of Kuhn himself, i.e., his personality, his pedagogical style, his institutional and social commitments, and the intellectual and social context in which he practiced his trade. Drawing on the rich archival sources at MIT, and engaging fully with current scholarship on Kuhn, Marcum's is the first book to show in detail how Kuhn's influence transcended the boundaries of the history and philosophy of science community to reach many others - sociologists, economists, theologians, political scientists, educators, and even policy makers and politicians.
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226457982
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.