Scott A. Kleiner

Taking the History of Science Really Seriously (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The scientific revolution is a many-faceted realization of Kuhn's phylogenic tree (1962), whose trunk is ancient astronomy with ramifications into terrestrial physics (Galileo, Descartes. Huygens, Newton) and biology and medicine (Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius, Harvey, Descartes, Steno, Linnaeus, Darwin, Fisher,Morgan, Mayr, Rapp). 'Revolutions' of the sort documented in Kuhn's Structure (1962) are pervasive in the history of science, both physical and biological. Some of these are analyzed in this book , but continuity within a tradtion is sought. As Kuhn argues in The Copernican Revolution (1959), scientific change is gradual with overlapping concepts and ideals, so discovery can be the rational pursuit of an ideal recognized as yet unfulflled.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098313975
• Artikelnr.: 60295117

Autorenporträt

I was born in Cincinnati OH in 1938. I was educated at Williams College (B.A. Physics, 1960), University of Chicago (M.A. 1961; Ph.D 1968). My employment was at Sweet Briar (Instructor 1965-1969), University of Georgia (Assistant Professor 1969-1977, Associate Professor 1977 and Professor and Professor Emeritus 19992, 20004 to the present). I studied the history of biology at Cambridge University UK (1973-4), discovery and inquiry at the University of Pittsburgh (1985-9) and Genetics at the University of Georgia (1992-3). i published a book on the logic of discovery in 1993. I am still pursuing scientific change and discovery in the physical and biological sciences.