Defends Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn's view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
K. Brad Wray is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Oswego. He has published extensively on the epistemology of science, Kuhn's philosophy of science and the anti-realism/realism debate. He was the guest editor of a special issue of the journal Episteme, on the theme of collective knowledge and science, and he is also the editor of an epistemology textbook, Knowledge and Inquiry (2002).
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures and table Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index.
List of figures and table Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index.
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