Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Release : 2022-12-05
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn by : Thomas S. Kuhn
Download or read book The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn written by Thomas S. Kuhn. This book was released on 2022-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.