Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester), Rupert Read (University of Manchester)

Kuhn

Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Kuhna s shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science, historiography, feminism, theology, and (of course) the natural sciences themselves is unparalleled.

Produktdetails

• Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780745619293
• ISBN-10: 0745619290
• Artikelnr.: 13605706

Autorenporträt

Wes Sharrock is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester and Rupert Read is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations for Kuhn's Works.
Introduction: The Legendary Thomas Kuhn.
Part I Exposition.
1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
2 The Historical Case Studies.
Part II Critical Issues.
3 Kuhn and the Methodologists of Science.
4 Incommensurability 1: Relativism about Truth and Meaning.
5 Incommensurability 2: World Changes.
Conclusion: The Unresolved Tension.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index

Rezensionen

"As Thomas Kuhn indicated in the first sentence of his great book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his aim was to "produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed". Unfortunately, many of Kuhn s readers have been possessed by a distorted image of Kuhn s own position, and so failed to appreciate the signal contribution he made to our understanding of scientific practice. Sharrock and Read aim to do for our image of Kuhn what Kuhn did for our image of science. They succeed brilliantly, giving a wonderfully insightful and nuanced account of what Kuhn was up to and what he achieved." Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge