Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology (Record no. 362)

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Classification number	501
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Personal author	Wray, K. Brad,
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Title	Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology
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Place of publication	Cambridge :
Publisher	Cambridge University Press,
Date	2014.
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Physical description	xiii, 229 pages :
Other physical details	illustrations (black and white) ;
Dimensions	23 cm
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General note	Originally published: 2011.
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Bibliography, etc	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents	List of figures and table; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kuhn's insight; Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 1. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes; 2. The Copernican revolution revisited; 3. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms; 4. The epistemic significance of incommensurability; Part II. Kuhn's Evolutionary Epistemology: 5. Kuhn's historical perspective; 6. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry; 7. Scientific specialization; 8. 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; Bibliography; Index.
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Summary	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 concepts of structure and explains the main characteristics of Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology.
Expansion of summary note	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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Personal name	Kuhn, Thomas S.
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Subject term	Science
General subdivision	Philosophy.
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Subject term	Knowledge, Theory of.
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Subject term	Social epistemology.
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Subject term	Science.
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Subject term	Science: general issues
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Subject term	Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Subject term	Philosophy of science
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Subject term	Impact of science & technology on society
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