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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Release : 1969
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Book Synopsis The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by : Thomas S. Kuhn
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Author : James A. Marcum
Release : 2005-10-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Thomas Kuhn's Revolution by : James A. Marcum
Download or read book Thomas Kuhn's Revolution written by James A. Marcum. This book was released on 2005-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William J. Devlin
Release : 2015-05-18
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On by : William J. Devlin
Download or read book Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On written by William J. Devlin. This book was released on 2015-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Release : 1993-05-15
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions by : Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Download or read book Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions written by Paul Hoyningen-Huene. This book was released on 1993-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas S. Kuhn
Release : 1962
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by : Thomas S. Kuhn
Download or read book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions written by Thomas S. Kuhn. This book was released on 1962. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
