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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

Incommensurability in Science

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

Incommensurability in Science

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas S. Kuhn: Scientific knowledge as historical product -- Abstract for "The Presence of Past Science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures)" -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The presence of past science (The Shearman Memorial Lectures). Lecture I: Regaining the past ; Lecture II: Portraying the past ; Lecture III: Embodying the past -- Abstract for The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development -- Thomas S. Kuhn: The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development. The problem ; Scientific knowledge as historical product ; Breaking into the past ; Taxonomy and incommensurability -- A world of kinds. Biological prerequisites to linguistic description: track and situations ; Natural kinds: how their names mean ; Practices, theories, and artefactual kinds.

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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

Incommensurability in Science

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Incommensurability in Science

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A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn’s unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the central claims of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the problems that it raised but did not resolve. The Plurality of Worlds is preceded by two related texts that Kuhn publicly delivered but never published in English: his paper “Scientific Knowledge as Historical Product” and his Shearman Memorial Lectures, “The Presence of Past Science.” An introduction by the editor describes the origins and structure of The Plurality of Worlds and sheds light on its central philosophical problems. Kuhn’s aims in his last writings are bold. He sets out to develop an empirically grounded theory of meaning that would allow him to make sense of both the possibility of historical understanding and the inevitability of incommensurability between past and present science. In his view, incommensurability is fully compatible with a robust notion of the real world that science investigates, the rationality of scientific change, and the idea that scientific development is progressive.

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0226833313

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The Copernican Revolution

Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Copernican Revolution

Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Thomas S. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man’s concept of his relation to the universe and to God. The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions—astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific—of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus’ break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle’s theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer’s imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation. With a final analysis of Copernicus’ life work—its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe—Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it. This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: “Professor Kuhn’s handling of the subject merits attention, for...he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times.”

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Harvard University Press

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067441747X

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The Essential Tension

Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Essential Tension

Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."-Sir Peter Medawar, Nature

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0226458059

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Enterprise and Venture Capital

A business builder's and investor's handbook

By: Christopher Golis,Patrick Mooney,Thomas F. Richardson

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Enterprise and Venture Capital

A business builder's and investor's handbook

By: Christopher Golis,Patrick Mooney,Thomas F. Richardson

The 5th edition of Enterprise and Venture Capitalism which has become the established bible for Australian venture capitalists.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741766508

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The Road Since Structure

Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Road Since Structure

Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

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.

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0226457982

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Western Civilization: Since 1560

By: Thomas F. X. Noble

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Western Civilization: Since 1560

By: Thomas F. X. Noble

The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western influences, and 2) power in all its senses, public and private; economic, social, cultural, and political; symbolic and real.

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