The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 6,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1968
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 172
• ISBN 10 : 7500426526

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International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

• Author : Charles William Morris
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 15,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1969
• Genre: International encyclopedia of unified science
• Pages : 128
• ISBN 10 : CHI:59173383

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 10,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1996
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 240
• ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822031154305

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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.

Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty

• Author : Robert J. Richards
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 15,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-03-25
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 208
• ISBN 10 : 9780226317175

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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.”

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-04-30
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 288
• ISBN 10 : 0226458121

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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.

Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On

• Author : William J. Devlin
• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 9,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-05-18
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 199
• ISBN 10 : 9783319133836

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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.

Kuhn s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

• Author : Vasso Kindi
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 14,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-05-20
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 272
• ISBN 10 : 9781136243202

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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.

Kuhn s Intellectual Path

• Author : K. Brad Wray
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 14,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-09-30
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 247
• ISBN 10 : 9781316512173

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Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• Author : Jo Hedesan
• Publisher : CRC Press
• File Size : 19,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-07-05
• Genre: History
• Pages : 130
• ISBN 10 : 9781351353472

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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.

Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions

• Author : Paul Hoyningen-Huene
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 12,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1993-05-15
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 330
• ISBN 10 : 9780226355511

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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.

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

• Author : Robert McCrum
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 15,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2018
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 1903385830

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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 --

The Road Since Structure

• Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 16,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2000-11
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 356
• ISBN 10 : 0226457982

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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.

Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894 1912

• Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 7,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1987-01-15
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 400
• ISBN 10 : 9780226458007

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"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."—John Gribbin, New Scientist "Every scientist should have this book."—Paul Davies, New Scientist

Thomas Kuhn

• Author : Alexander Bird
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 7,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-12-18
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 321
• ISBN 10 : 9781317490135

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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.

Kuhn

• Author : Wes Sharrock
• Publisher : Polity
• File Size : 5,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2002-10-22
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 248
• ISBN 10 : 0745619290

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Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science, historiography, feminism, theology, and (of course) the natural sciences themselves is unparalleled. His epoch-making concepts of 'new paradigm' and 'scientific revolution' make him probably the most influential scholar of the twentieth century. Sharrock and Read take the reader through Kuhn's work in a careful and accessible way, emphasizing Kuhn's detailed studies of the history of science, which often assist the understanding of his more abstract philosophical work. These historical studies provide vital insight into what Kuhn was actually trying to achieve in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: an endeavour far less extreme than either his 'foes' or his 'fans' claim. In the book's second half, Sharrock and Read provide excellent explications, defences and, where appropriate, criticisms of Kuhn's central concept of 'incommensurability', and tackle head on the crucial issue of whether Kuhn's insights concerning the natural sciences can be extrapolated to other disciplines, such as the social sciences. This is the first comprehensive introduction to the work of Kuhn and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars in philosophy, theory of science, management science and anthropology.