Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy
Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is regarded as one of the most influential works in the philosophy of science. This book not only revisits his legacy in the history and philosoph...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Kuhn still Matters (Yafeng Shan)
- Part I: Exploring Kuhnian Legacy
- Chapter 2. Has There Been a Second Kuhnian Revolution? (Joseph Rouse)
- Chapter 3. Kuhnian Lessons for the Social Epistemology of Science (Vincenzo Politi)
- Chapter 4. Kuhn, Modern Mathematics and the Dynamics of Reason (David Corfield)
- Chapter 5. Kuhn and Knowing-How: A New Conception of Scientific Progress (Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen)
- Chapter 6. Worlds, Algorithms, and Niches: The Feedback-loop Idea in Kuhn’s Philosophy (Matteo De Benedetto and Michele Luchetti)
- Chapter 7. The Role of Mathematics in the Copernican Revolution (Donald Gillies)
- Chapter 8. Normal Science and Tradition in the Non-West: Divergence in Adherence in West and East Asia (M. A. Mujeeb Khan)
- Part II: Rereading Kuhn
- Chapter 9. Interpreting Structure (Alexander Bird)
- Chapter 10. Kuhn and Philosophy (Vasso Kindi)
- Chapter 11. Reappraising Kind Concepts (Paulo Pirozelli)
- Chapter 12. Revolutionary Analogies (Francesco Nappo)
- Chapter 13. Kuhn on Creativity and Tradition in Education (Hanne Andersen)
- Chapter 14. Kuhn, Popper, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Techno-Scientific Revolution (Daniele Cozzoli)
- Chapter 15. Kuhn’s “Does Knowledge ‘Grow’?” (Juan Vicente Mayoral)
- Appendix (Juan Vicente Mayoral)
- Index