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Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226458052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: T. S. Kuhn
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Published: 1979
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Published: 1977
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-05-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0226355519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work. Bibliography.
Author: David L. Norton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780691019758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the meaning of life? Modern professional philosophy has largely renounced the attempt to answer this question and has restricted itself to the pursuit of more esoteric truths. Not so David Norton. Following in the footsteps of Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jung and Maslow, he sets forth a distinctive vision of the individual's search for his place in the scheme of things. Norton's theory of individualism is rooted in the eudaimonistic ethics of the Creeks, who viewed each person as innately possessing a unique potential it was his destiny to fulfill. Very much the same idea resurfaced in modern times with the British idealists and Continental existentialists. The author reviews these antecedents, showing how his theory differs from those of his predecessors. After a fascinating chapter on "The Stages of Life," Norton shows how the mature consciousness of one's destiny leads to direct, intimate knowledge of other persons, and how this in turn provides the basis for social morality. The conception of justice in which this theory culminates, rooted as it is in essential human differences, provides a challenging alternative to the much-discussed theories of Rawls and Nozick.
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780226457987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDivided 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.
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-01-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0226458008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."—John Gribbin, New Scientist "Every scientist should have this book."—Paul Davies, New Scientist
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9780674767782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea.
Author: Ilkka Niiniluoto
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 3319991574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S. Peirce, the founder of American pragmatism. It explores the historical and systematic connections of Peirce's original ideas and debates about their interpretations. Abduction is understood in a broad sense which covers the discovery and pursuit of hypotheses and inference to the best explanation. The analysis presents fresh insights into this notion of reasoning, which derives from effects to causes or from surprising observations to explanatory theories. The author outlines some logical and AI approaches to abduction as well as studies various kinds of inverse problems in astronomy, physics, medicine, biology, and human sciences to provide examples of retroductions and abductions. The discussion covers also everyday examples with the implication of this notion in detective stories, one of Peirce’s own favorite themes. The author uses Bayesian probabilities to argue that explanatory abduction is a method of confirmation. He uses his own account of truth approximation to reformulate abduction as inference which leads to the truthlikeness of its conclusion. This allows a powerful abductive defense of scientific realism. This up-to-date survey and defense of the Peircean view of abduction may very well help researchers, students, and philosophers better understand the logic of truth-seeking.
Author: Richard Boyd
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 9780262521567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe more than forty readings in this anthology cover the most important developments of the past six decades, charting the rise and decline of logical positivism and the gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major issues and theoretical options in the field. As an introduction to the philosophy of science, it stands out for its scope, its coverage of both historical and contemporary developments, and its detailed introductions to each area discussed.
