عنوان

Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology /

شابک

1107012236 (hardback)

شابک

9781107012233 (hardback)

شماره

b519782

عنوان اصلي

Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

K. Brad Wray

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 229 p. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 2. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes; 3. The Copernican revolution revisited; 4. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms; 5. The epistemic significance of incommensurability; Part II. The Evolutionary Perspective: 6. Kuhn's historical perspective; 7. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry; 8. Scientific specialization: taking stock of the evolutionary dimensions of Kuhn's epistemology; Part III. Kuhn's Social Epistemology: 9. Kuhn's constructionism; 10. What makes Kuhn's epistemology a social epistemology?; 11. How does a new theory come to be accepted?; 12. Where the road has taken us -- a synthesis

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"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"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Kuhn, Thomas S

موضوع مستند نشده

Knowledge, Theory of

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Social epistemology

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wray, K. Brad,1963-

تاريخ عمليات

20120202084411.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y