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9780511498404
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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions became the most widely read book about science in the twentieth century. His terms 'paradigm' and 'scientific revolution' entered everyday speech, but they remain controversial. In the second half of the twentieth century, the new field of cognitive science combined empirical psychology, computer science, and neuroscience. In this book, the theories of concepts developed by cognitive scientists are used to evaluate and extend Kuhn's most influential ideas. Based on case studies of the Copernican revolution, the discovery of nuclear fission, and an elaboration of Kuhn's famous 'ducks and geese' example of concept learning, this volume, first published in 2006, offers accounts of the nature of normal and revolutionary science, the function of anomalies, and the nature of incommensurability
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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1. Revolutions in science and science studies -- 2. Kuhn's theory of concepts -- 3. Representing concepts by means of dynamic frames -- 4. Scientific change -- 5. Incommensurability -- 6. The Copernican revolution -- 7. Realism, history, and cognitive studies of science.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521855754
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107637238
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Print version ISBN 9780521855754
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1922-1996
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Wissenschaftliche Revolution
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Paradigma
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511498404
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