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020			_z9781107012233 (hardback)
020			_z9781139157834 (e-book)
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035			_a(OCoLC)773039072
050	1	4	_aQ175 _b.W78 2011eb
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100	1		_aWray, K. Brad, _d1963-
245	1	0	_aKuhn's evolutionary social epistemology _h[electronic resource] / _cK. Brad Wray.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axiii, 229 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2012. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aKuhn, Thomas S.
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of.
650		0	_aSocial epistemology.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10514217 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
999			_c196612 _d196612