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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: 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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'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 social epistemology that deserves its name. He also shows us clearly how a theory of scientific development that features revolutions is nevertheless evolutionary. A splendid book!' Professor Dr Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Leibniz Universitat Hannover 'Wray's monograph fills an important gap in the literature on Kuhn by clarifying and defending Kuhn's epistemology of science as it was developed in his later work, and by showing how it relates to recent work in sociology of science and science studies. Wray offers many important insights drawn from his re-examination of Kuhn's social epistemology while at the same time pointing to new areas of research that philosophers need to pursue.' Hanne Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Read more...