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Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Science)
  • Author:  Wray, K. Brad
  • Author:  Wray, K. Brad
  • ISBN-10:  1107632900
  • ISBN-10:  1107632900
  • ISBN-13:  9781107632905
  • ISBN-13:  9781107632905
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  244
  • Pages:  244
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2014
  • SKU:  1107632900-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1107632900-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101418615
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Defends Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn's view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.Provides a defence of Kuhn's theory of scientific knowledge, arguing that it is an evolutionary social epistemology; revisits concepts from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and examines new directions in Kuhn's view, including his emphasis on specialization. Wray also examines Kuhn's view of social constructionism and the sociology of science.Provides a defence of Kuhn's theory of scientific knowledge, arguing that it is an evolutionary social epistemology; revisits concepts from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and examines new directions in Kuhn's view, including his emphasis on specialization. Wray also examines Kuhn's view of social constructionism and the sociology of science.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.List of figures and table; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kuhn's insight; Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 1lóä
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