Kuhn's Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kuhn's Legacy write by Bojana Mladenović. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Kuhn's Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism write by Stefano Gattei. This book was released on 2008. Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic Turn" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. 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.
Thomas Kuhn's Revolution
Thomas Kuhn's Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Kuhn's Revolution write by James A. Marcum. This book was released on 2005-10-02. Thomas Kuhn's Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy
Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy write by Yafeng Shan. This book was released on . Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Interpreting Kuhn
Interpreting Kuhn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interpreting Kuhn write by K. Brad Wray. This book was released on 2021-07-08. Interpreting Kuhn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One might wonder if there is anything new to say about Thomas Kuhn and his views on science. Scholarship on Kuhn, though, has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. This is so for a number reasons"--
