Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Kuhnian Image of ScienceCondition: NewSubtitle: Time for a Decisive Transformation?ISBN-10: 1786603403EAN: 9781786603401ISBN: 9781786603401Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/06/2017Description: More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science. One argument put forward is that there are no good reasons to accept Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis, according to which scientific revolutions involve the replacement of theories with conceptually incompatible ones. Perhaps, therefore, it is time for another “decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.” Only this time, the image of science that needs to be transformed is the Kuhnian one. Does the Kuhnian image of science provide an adequate model of scientific practice? If we abandon the Kuhnian picture of revolutionary change and incommensurability, what consequences would follow from that vis-à-vis our understanding of scientific knowledge as a social endeavour?The essays in this collection continue this debate, offering a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.Language: EnglishItem Height: 236mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 463gContributor: Moti Mizrahi (Edited by)Author: Moti MizrahiGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and SocietyCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Kuhnian Image of Science
Title: The Kuhnian Image of Science
Subtitle: Time for a Decisive Transformation?
ISBN-10: 1786603403
EAN: 9781786603401
ISBN: 9781786603401
Release Date: 12/06/2017
Release Year: 2017
Contributor: Moti Mizrahi (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Kuhnian Image of Science : Time for a Decisive Transformation?
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Subject: Epistemology, Individual Philosophers, Movements / Empiricism, General, Research & Methodology, Science & Technology
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Moti Mizrahi
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
