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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at fifty : reflections on a science classic / edited by Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston.
LIBRA Q175 .K84 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996. Structure of scientific revolutions.
- Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Structure of scientific revolutions (Kuhn, Thomas S.).
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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. 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." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Aristotle in the Cold War: on the origins of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions / George A. Reisch
- A smoker's paradigm / M. Norton Wise
- Practice all the way down / Peter Galison
- Thomas Kuhn and the psychology of scientific revolutions / David Kaiser
- Paradigms / Ian Hacking
- History of science without Structure / Lorraine Daston
- Why the scientific revolution wasn't a scientific revolution, and why it matters / Daniel Garber
- Paradigms and exemplars meet biomedicine / Angela N. Creager
- Structure as cited, Structure as read / Andrew Abbott.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226317205
- 9780226317038
- 022631703X
- 022631720X
- OCLC:
- 908838739
- Publisher Number:
- 99967803583
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