The Kuhnian Image of Science

Time for a Decisive Transformation?
Herausgeber: Mizrahi, Moti

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

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Produktdetails

• Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781786603401
• ISBN-10: 1786603403
• Artikelnr.: 48696112

Autorenporträt

Edited by Moti Mizrahi

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Moti Mizrahi
Part I: Questioning the Kuhnian Image of Science 
1. Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis: What's the Argument?, Moti Mizrahi
2. Modeling Scientific Development: Lessons from Thomas Kuhn, Alexandra Argamakova
3. Can Kuhn's Taxonomic Incommensurability be an Image of Science? Seungbae Park
4. The Demise of the Incommensurability Thesis, Howard Sankey
Part II: Defending the Kuhnian Image of Science
5. The Kuhnian Straw Man, Vasso Kindi
6. Kuhn, Pedagogy, and Practice: A Local Reading of Structure, Lydia Patton
Part III: Revising the Kuhnian Image of Science
7. Redefining Revolutions, Andrew Aberdein
8. Revolution or Evolution in Science? A Role for the Incommensurability Thesis? James A. Marcum
Part IV: Abandoning the Kuhnian Image of Science
 9. The Biological Metaphors of Scientific Change, Barbara Gabriella Renzi and Giulio Napolitano
10.Beyond Kuhn: Methodological Contextualism and Partial Paradigms, Darrell P. Rowbottom
About the Contributors
Index