Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology
Cambridge University Press (2011)
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Buy the book | $82.12 direct from Amazon (18% off) Amazon page | |||||||||
| Call number | Q175.W78 2011 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 1107012236 9781107012233 | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,653 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesK. Brad Wray (2013). The Future of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Topoi 32 (1):75-79.
Xiang Chen (1997). Thomas Kuhn's Latest Notion of Incommensurability. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 28 (2):257-273.
William Rehg (2013). The Social Authority of Paradigms as Group Commitments: Rehabilitating Kuhn with Recent Social Philosophy. Topoi 32 (1):21-31.
Francis Remedios (2012). Review of Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. [REVIEW] Philosophy in Review 32 (6):533-535.
Jonathan Y. Tsou (2006). Genetic Epistemology and Piaget's Philosophy of Science: Piaget Vs. Kuhn on Scientific Progress. Theory and Psychology 16 (2):203-224.
Richard Henry Schmitt (2006). Darwin, Kuhn, and Polanyi. Tradition and Discovery 33 (2):49-55.
Paul Hoyningen-Huene (2002). Paul Feyerabend Und Thomas Kuhn. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 33 (1):61-83.
Paul Hoyningen-Huene (2008). Thomas Kuhn and the Chemical Revolution. Foundations of Chemistry 10 (2).
Michael Bycroft (2012). Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (3):425-429.
Alex Levine (2010). Thomas Kuhn's Cottage. Perspectives on Science 18 (3):369-377.
Gerard Delanty (2003). Rethinking Kuhn's Legacy Without Paradigms: Some Remarks on Steve Fuller's Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Social Epistemology 17 (2 & 3):153 – 156.
K. Brad Wray (2010). Kuhn's Constructionism. Perspectives on Science 18 (3):311-327.
James Franklin (2000). Thomas Kuhn's Irrationalism. New Criterion 18 (10):29-34.
R. Read & J. Woolley (forthcoming). Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-06-24Total downloads36 ( #32,948 of 548,984 )Recent downloads (6 months)3 ( #25,729 of 548,984 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
