Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology

ISBN: 9781107632905 出版年：2011 页码：246 K Brad Wray Cambridge University Press

List of figures and table Acknowledgements Introduction: Kuhn's insight Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 1. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes 2. The Copernican revolution revisited 3. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms 4. The epistemic significance of incommensurability Part II. Kuhn's Evolutionary Epistemology: 5. Kuhn's historical perspective 6. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry 7. Scientific specialization 8. Taking stock of the evolutionary dimensions of Kuhn's epistemology Part III. Kuhn's Social Epistemology: 9. Kuhn's constructionism 10. What makes Kuhn's epistemology a social epistemology? 11. How does a new theory come to be accepted? 12. Where the road has taken us: a synthesis Bibliography Index.