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1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. The essays in this book exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics and Kuhn's own intellectual biography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996. Structure of scientific revolutions.
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Structure of scientific revolutions (Kuhn, Thomas S.) |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942- editor.
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Daston, Lorraine, 1951- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at fifty. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226317038 022631703X (DLC) 2015017230 (OCoLC)908838739 |
| ISBN |
9780226317175 (electronic book) |
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022631717X (electronic book) |
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022631720X |
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9780226317205 |
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022631703X |
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9780226317038 |
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9780226317038 |
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022631703X |
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9780226317205 |
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022631720X |
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9780226317205 |
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9780226317038 |
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40025902190 |
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