Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology (Record no. 196612)

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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781107012233 (hardback)
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781139157834 (e-book)
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System control number (OCoLC)773039072
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Classification number Q175
Item number .W78 2011eb
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Classification number 501
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wray, K. Brad,
Dates associated with a name 1963-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc. K. Brad Wray.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011.
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Extent xiii, 229 p. :
Other physical details ill.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 2. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes; 3. The Copernican revolution revisited; 4. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms; 5. The epistemic significance of incommensurability; Part II. The Evolutionary Perspective: 6. Kuhn's historical perspective; 7. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry; 8. Scientific specialization: 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.
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Summary, etc. "Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for developing an epistemology of science that takes account of the constructive role that social factors play in scientific inquiry. He examines the core concepts of Structure and explains the main characteristics of both Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology, relating Structure to Kuhn's developed view presented in his later writings. The discussion includes analyses of the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the plate tectonics revolution in geology. The book will be useful for scholars working in science studies, sociologists and historians of science as well as philosophers of science"--
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Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Palo Alto, Calif. :
Agency responsible for reproduction ebrary,
Date of reproduction 2012.
Note about reproduction Available via World Wide Web.
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600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kuhn, Thomas S.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Science
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Knowledge, Theory of.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social epistemology.
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