Perspectives on Kuhn

Perspectives on Kuhn
Author: Leandro Giri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2023-01-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031163710

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This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn’s work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other books, this volume picks up the gauntlet to develop, from a contemporary perspective, some points that can be improved in the light of recent findings and conceptualizations in metatheory. Thus, this work pays a visit to the classical Kuhnian landscapes, but rather proposing interpretations, it takes them as the starting point to go further. One hundred years after Kuhn's birth, the editors and authors rekindle the passion and interest that have always surrounded the work of the great Boston philosopher and historian.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

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Global Perspectives on Megatrends

Global Perspectives on Megatrends
Author: Berthold M. Kuhn
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Civilization, Modern
ISBN: 9783838215631

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Berthold M. Kuhn and Dimitrios L. Margellos analyze future global trends. They discuss megatrends such as climate change and sustainability, digitalization, growing inequalities, urbanization and smart cities, green economy, and sustainable finance, as well as new trends in democracy and governance, migration, and culture.

Beyond Kuhn

Beyond Kuhn
Author: Edwin H.-C. Hung
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351955632

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Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive notion of 'paradigm shift' in terms of the new concept of representational space. In doing so, Edwin H.-C. Hung is able to produce the first-ever unitary theory that solves the five central problems in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, incommensurability, scientific change and physical necessity. The book identifies the main task of science as representing reality. This involves the construction of a representational space and the subsequent modeling of reality with configurations of 'objects' in that space. Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, then, all serve as representational spaces. 'Beyond Kuhn' is a significant progression in scientific methodology. Other than serving as a sequel to Kuhn's 'Scientific Revolutions', it will be of great use in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and education.

The Road Since Structure

The Road Since Structure
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226457987

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Divided into three parts, this work is a record of the direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. It consists of essays in which he refines the basic concepts set forth in "Structure"--Paradigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress.

Losing Work, Moving on

Losing Work, Moving on
Author: Peter Joseph Kuhn
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0880992344

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And synthesis / Peter J. Kuhn -- Displaced workers in the United States and the Netherlands / Joap H. Abbring ... [et al.] -- Worker displacement in Japan and Canada / Masahiro Abe ... [et al.] -- They get knocked down. do they get up again? / Jeff Borland ... [et al.] -- Worker displacement in France and Germany / Stefan Bender ... [et al.] -- Employment protection and the consequences for displaced workers / Karsten Albk, Marc Van Audenrode, and Martin Browning.

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn
Author: Thomas Nickles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521796484

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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
Author: William J. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319133837

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In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.