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| ISBN: | 9781139161640
1139161644
9780511997990
051199799X
9786613342614
6613342610
9781139157834
1139157833
9781139157834
1139153072
9781139153072
1283342618
9781283342612
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9781139159593
1139159593
9781107012233
1107012236
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-226) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for developing an epistemology of science that takes account of the constructive role that social factors play in scientific inquiry. He examines the core concepts of Structure and explains the main characteristics of both Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology, relating Structure to Kuhn's developed view presented in his later writings. The discussion includes analyses of the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the plate tectonics revolution in geology. The book will be useful for scholars working in science studies, sociologists and historians of science as well as philosophers of science"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Wray, K. Brad, 1963- Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107012233
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| Standard no.: | 10.1017/CBO9780511997990
9786613342614
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