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Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology

Author: K Brad Wray
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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"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  Read more...
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Wray, K. Brad, 1963-
Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
(DLC) 2011026075
(OCoLC)729345934
Named Person: Thomas S Kuhn
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: K Brad Wray
ISBN: 9781139161640 1139161644 9780511997990 051199799X
OCLC Number: 773039072
Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 229 p.) : ill.
Contents: Introduction: Kuhn's insight --
Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 1. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes; 2. The Copernican revolution revisited; 3. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms; 4. The epistemic significance of incommensurability --
Part II. Kuhn's Evolutionary Epistemology: 5. Kuhn's historical perspective; 6. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry; 7. Scientific specialization; 8. 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.
Responsibility: K. Brad Wray.

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Defends Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn's view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.  Read more...
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'K. Brad Wray admirably succeeds in explaining in a coherent way Thomas Kuhn's view of scientific development. He shows us how a sympathetic dispute with the sociology of science paves the way for a Read more...

 
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