The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton · 7 Dec 2015 · 1,197pp · 304,245 words
the foundation of modern physics.11 Koyré had a vast influence in America, and his Bachelardian conception of an intellectual mutation was adopted by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Laski and Butterfield had a comparable influence in England on works such as Rupert Hall’s The Scientific Revolution (1954), which denied any connection
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1953, that arguments drawn from Wittgenstein began to transform the history and philosophy of science; their influence can already be seen, for example, in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.72 Thereafter it became common to claim that Wittgenstein had shown that rationality was entirely culturally relative: our science may be different from that
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action is Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air-pump (1985), generally acknowledged as the most influential work in the discipline since Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions.xlix The new history of science offered, in Steven Shapin’s phrase, a social history of truth.l Scientific method, it was now argued
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limits, was never taken in by it. 17 ‘What Do I Know?’ ‘What must the world be like in order that man may know it?’ Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)1 No theory of knowledge should attempt to explain why we are successful in our attempts to explain things . . . there are many worlds
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Lecture: Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. Economy and Society 31 (2002): 1–14. ———. ‘Introductory Essay’. In Thomas S Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012: i–xxxvii. ———. ‘Language, Truth and Reason’. In Rationality and Relativism. Ed. M Hollis and S Lukes. Cambridge
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: Kuhn, Feyerabend and Incommensurability’. In Rhetoric and Incommensurability. Ed. RA Harris. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2005: 150–75. ———. ‘Two Letters of Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kuhn on a Draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 26 (1995): 353–87. Hues, Robert. A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both
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Huygens) 234 Koyré, Alexandre coining ‘Scientific Revolution’ 16, 17, 20 ideas of place and space 19 quoted 595 science and progress 512 thought, importance of 50 Kuhn, Thomas see also Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The alternative views of science 538, 542, 543 coining ‘Copernican Revolution’ 18, 55, 145 see also On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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Steno, Niels 96 Stephenson, Robert 490 Stevin, Simon 203, 299, 336, 432 Stoicism 425 Stradanus, Johannes 56, 58 Strasbourg Cathedral 437, 438, 444, 445 Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The (Thomas Kuhn) Alexandre Koyré’s influence 19 history of science and 245, 349 influential work, an 44, 349 last chapter 513 publication of 18 Quine and 514n
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. In principle any theory could be saved by redefining terms in this way; but the enterprise would be pointless. iv This follows, some believe, from Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), which itself cites Quine in the Preface. The argument is much more boldly stated in a book Kuhn had read, Ludwik Fleck, Genesis
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
, “A Discussion with Thomas S. Kuhn,” in James Conant and John Haugeland, eds., The Road Since Structure (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 308. 13. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 5, 16–17. For an accessible intellectual biography see Alexander Bird, “Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
take a Darwinian approach to innovation, and use that approach to make sense of Darwin’s own distinct genius. Arthur Koestler’s Act of Creation and Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions remain essential platforms for the understanding of new ideas. Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class looks at creativity in an urban context
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. Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London: Hutchinson, 1969. Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Langton, Christopher G., et al. “Life at the Edge of Chaos.” Artificial Life II 10 (1992): 41-91
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
by Shawn Lawrence Otto · 10 Oct 2011 · 692pp · 127,032 words
, greedy, mechanistic, sexist, racist, imperialistic, oppressive, and not to be trusted. KUHNIANISM In 1962, this broad ambivalence toward science crystallized with the publication of American philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Stunningly, it became one of the most cited academic books of the twentieth century. It sold about a million copies, a figure unheard
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
, and good sources of inspiration in nailing down what those ideas are and how they work. Speaking of disjunctive leaps inevitably brings us to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the most cited work of social science in the twentieth century and populariser of the aforementioned term, the paradigm shift. Kuhn was interested in
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(1993), ‘Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108 No. 3, pp. 681–716 Kuhn, Thomas S. (2012), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (fourth edition), Chicago: University of Chicago Press Lafond, François, and Kim, Daniel (2017), ‘Long-Run Dynamics of the U.S. Patent Classification System
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur · 6 Aug 2009 · 297pp · 77,362 words
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn and Ian Hacking · 1 Jan 1962 · 314pp · 91,652 words
-3 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-45812-1 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-45814-8 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn ; with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking.—Fourth edition. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-226
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. Hacking, Ian. II. Title. Q175.K95 2012 501—dc23 2011042476 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). The Structure of Scientific REVOLUTIONS FOURTH EDITION THOMAS S. KUHN With an Introductory Essay by Ian Hacking The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Contents Introductory Essay by Ian Hacking Preface I
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Interview, ed. James Conant and John Haugeland (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 253–324. 5. Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993). 6. Conant and Haugeland, eds., Road since Structure (see note 4 above). 7. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
often designed to poison them against it. The most commonly assigned book on science in modern universities (aside from a popular biology textbook) is Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.21 That 1962 classic is commonly interpreted as showing that science does not converge on the truth but merely busies itself with solving puzzles
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, 395, 408–9 and bioethics, 402 as bipartisan, 388–9 cultural sophistication and, 17 faitheism and, 430 history of science and, 395–6 and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 395, 486n21 left-wing repression, 373, 388 medical progress and, 63 right-wing politicians and, 387–8 “science studies” and, 396 Second Culture paranoia
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science in their work, and they certainly borrow the authority of science to communicate their beliefs to the general public, but “the results of their enterprise,” as Thomas Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, might have put it, “do not add up to science as we know it.” Though the reasons for this situation are understandable
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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(Oxford University Press, 2006). “the poverty of the stimulus” (FN). Chomsky describes this problem in his Rules and Representations (Columbia University Press, 2005). Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (The University of Chicago Press, 1996). The anecdote about Chinese and Western astronomers appears on p. 116. As Alan Greenspan pointed out. http://oversight.house
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