The Kuhnian Image of Science : Time for a Decisive Transformation?
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
ISBN-10
1786603411
ISBN-13
9781786603418
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield International
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 9th, 2019
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
352 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.
More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn''s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science. One argument put forward is that there are no good reasons to accept Kunh''s incommensurability thesis, according to which scientific revolutions involve the replacement of theories with conceptually incompatible ones. Perhaps, therefore, it is time for another "decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed." Only this time, the image of science that needs to be transformed is the Kuhnian one. Does the Kuhnian image of science provide an adequate model of scientific practice? If we abandon the Kuhnian picture of revolutionary change and incommensurability, what consequences would follow from that vis-à-vis our understanding of scientific knowledge as a social endeavour?The essays in this collection continue this debate, offering a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.
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