Thomas Kuhn S Linguistic Turn And The Legacy Of Logical Empiricism

Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
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Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351879101

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Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism by Stefano Gattei Pdf

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "new philosophy of science" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Kuhn as the central figure of the new philosophy of science, and Popper as a key philosopher of the time who stands outside both traditions. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper crisis of foundationalism that spans the whole of the Western philosophical tradition, ultimately shows what is untenable in Kuhn's view. Gattei has written a very detailed and fine grained, yet accessible discussion making exceptionally interesting use of archive materials.

Author : Alexander Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317490135

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Thomas Kuhn by Alexander Bird Pdf

Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal 1962 work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced the term 'paradigm shift' into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and philosophy of science. This introduction to Kuhn's ideas covers the breadth of his philosophical work, situating "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" within Kuhn's wider thought and drawing attention to the development of his ideas over time. Kuhn's work is assessed within the context of other philosophies of science notably logical empiricism and recent developments in naturalized epistemology. The author argues that Kuhn's thinking betrays a residual commitment to many theses characteristic of the empiricists he set out to challenge. Kuhn's influence on the history and philosophy of science is assessed and where the field may be heading in the wake of Kuhn's ideas is explored.

Author : William J. Devlin,Alisa Bokulich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
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 : James A. Marcum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472522085

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Thomas Kuhn's Revolutions by James A. Marcum Pdf

This new edition of Thomas Kuhn's Revolution marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kuhn's most influential work. Drawing on the rich archival sources at MIT, and engaging fully with current scholarship, James Marcum provides the historical background to the development of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Exploring the shift Kuhn makes from a historical to an evolutionary philosophy of science and examining Kuhn's legacy in depth, Marcum answers key questions: What exactly was Kuhn's historiographic revolution and how did it come about? Why did it have the impact it did? What will its future impact be for both academia and society? Marcum's answers build a new portrait of Kuhn: his personality, his pedagogical style and the intellectual and social context in which he practiced his trade. Thomas Kuhn's Revolution shows how Kuhn transcends the boundaries of the philosophy of science, influencing sociologists, economists, theologians and even policy makers and politicians. This is a comprehensive historical and conceptual introduction to the man who changed our understanding of science.

Author : Bojana Mladenović
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231520744

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Kuhn's Legacy by Bojana Mladenović Pdf

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms, such as “paradigm shift,” “normal science,” and “incommensurability,” are now used in both academic and public discourse without any reference to Kuhn. However, Kuhn’s philosophy is still often misunderstood and underappreciated. In Kuhn’s Legacy, Bojana Mladenović offers a novel analysis of Kuhn’s central philosophical project, focusing on his writings after Structure. Mladenović argues that Kuhn’s historicism was always coupled with a firm and consistent antirelativism but that it was only in his mature writings that Kuhn began to systematically develop an original account of scientific rationality. She reconstructs this account, arguing that Kuhn sees the rationality of science as a form of collective rationality. At the purely formal level, Kuhn’s conception of scientific rationality prohibits obviously irrational beliefs and choices and requires reason-responsiveness as well as the uninterrupted pursuit of inquiry. At the substantive, historicized level, it rests on a distinctly pragmatist mode of justification compatible with a notion of contingent but robust scientific progress. Mladenović argues that Kuhn’s epistemology and his metaphilosophy both represent a creative and fruitful continuation of the tradition of American pragmatism. Kuhn’s Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn’s philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.

Author : Vasso Kindi,Theodore Arabatzis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136243219

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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 : Vasso Kindi,Theodore Arabatzis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Paul K. Feyerabend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521881302

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Physics and Philosophy by Paul K. Feyerabend Pdf

First comprehensive collection of Feyerabend's philosophy of quantum physics, the hotbed of all key issues of his most debated ideas.

Author : Paul Horwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822960540

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World Changes by Paul Horwich Pdf

Prominent philosophers analyze the work of Thomas Kuhn (including his monumental study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and subsequent teachings from a broad perspective, comparing earlier logical empiricism and logical positivism with the new philosophy inspired by Kuhn in the early 1960s.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226725693

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The Linguistic Turn by Richard Rorty Pdf

The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since. "All too rarely an anthology is put together that reflects imagination, command, and comprehensiveness. Rorty's collection is just such a book."—Review of Metaphysics

Author : Alan Richardson,Thomas Uebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139826433

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The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism by Alan Richardson,Thomas Uebel Pdf

If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. The essays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in central Europe and its acculturation in North America, discussing its main topics, and achievements and failures, in different areas of philosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.

Author : Thomas Bonk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402012063

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Language, Truth and Knowledge by Thomas Bonk Pdf

This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this volume will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians.

Author : R CREATH
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400739291

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Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism by R CREATH Pdf

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1303903719

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226822747

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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

Thomas S. Kuhn: Scientific knowledge as historical product -- Abstract for "The Presence of Past Science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures)" -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The presence of past science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures). Lecture I: Regaining the past ; Lecture II: Portraying the past ; Lecture III: Embodying the past -- Abstract for The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development. The problem ; Scientific knowledge as historical product ; Breaking into the past ; Taxonomy and incommensurability -- A world of kinds. Biological prerequisites to linguistic description: track and situations ; Natural kinds: how their names mean ; Practices, theories, and artefactual kinds.