Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty (eBook)

Reflections on a Science Classic

Lorraine Daston, Robert J. Richards (Herausgeber)

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2016
208 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-31717-5 (ISBN)

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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 "e;paradigm shift,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-226-31717-X / 022631717X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31717-5 / 9780226317175