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000840226 1001_ $$aWray, K. Brad,$$d1963-
000840226 24510 $$aKuhn's evolutionary social epistemology$$h[electronic resource] /$$cK. Brad Wray.
000840226 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2011.
000840226 300__ $$axiii, 229 p. :$$bill.
000840226 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000840226 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 2. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes; 3. The Copernican revolution revisited; 4. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms; 5. The epistemic significance of incommensurability; Part II. The Evolutionary Perspective: 6. Kuhn's historical perspective; 7. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry; 8. Scientific specialization: taking stock of the evolutionary dimensions of Kuhn's epistemology; Part III. Kuhn's Social Epistemology: 9. Kuhn's constructionism; 10. What makes Kuhn's epistemology a social epistemology?; 11. How does a new theory come to be accepted?; 12. Where the road has taken us - a synthesis.
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000840226 520__ $$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"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000840226 60010 $$aKuhn, Thomas S.
000840226 650_0 $$aScience$$xPhilosophy.
000840226 650_0 $$aKnowledge, Theory of.
000840226 650_0 $$aSocial epistemology.
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