Kuhn's Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

TY - BOOK

T1 - Kuhn's Intellectual Path

T2 - Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

AU - Wray, K. Brad

PY - 2021/9

Y1 - 2021/9

N2 - DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the AuthorsThomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offers an insightful and engaging theory of science that speaks to scholars across many disciplines. Though initially widely misunderstood, it had a profound impact on the way intellectuals and educated laypeople thought about science. K. Brad Wray traces the influences on Kuhn as he wrote Structure, including his 'Aristotle epiphany', his interactions with James B. Conant, and his studies of the history of chemistry. Wray then considers the impact of Structure on the social sciences, on the history of science, and on the philosophy of science, where the problem of theory change has set the terms of contemporary realism/anti-realism debates. He examines Kuhn's frustrations with the Strong Programme sociologists' appropriations of his views, and debunks several popular claims about what influenced Kuhn as he wrote Structure. His book is a rich and comprehensive assessment of one of the most influential works in the modern sciences.

AB - DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the AuthorsThomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offers an insightful and engaging theory of science that speaks to scholars across many disciplines. Though initially widely misunderstood, it had a profound impact on the way intellectuals and educated laypeople thought about science. K. Brad Wray traces the influences on Kuhn as he wrote Structure, including his 'Aristotle epiphany', his interactions with James B. Conant, and his studies of the history of chemistry. Wray then considers the impact of Structure on the social sciences, on the history of science, and on the philosophy of science, where the problem of theory change has set the terms of contemporary realism/anti-realism debates. He examines Kuhn's frustrations with the Strong Programme sociologists' appropriations of his views, and debunks several popular claims about what influenced Kuhn as he wrote Structure. His book is a rich and comprehensive assessment of one of the most influential works in the modern sciences.

KW - Thomas Kuhn

KW - Structure of scientific revolutions

KW - James B. Conant

KW - philosophy of science

KW - sociology of science

KW - paradigm

KW - paradigm change

KW - history of science

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M3 - Book

SN - 9781316512173

BT - Kuhn's Intellectual Path

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -