| Description |
vi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Paul Horwich -- Thomas Kuhn, Colleague and Friend / Carl G. Hempel -- The Philosophers Look Back. Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology / John Earman. Remarks on the History of Science and the History of Philosophy / Michael Friedman. Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science / Ernan McMullin -- The Historians Look. A Mathematicians' Mutiny, with Morals / J. L. Heilbron. Science and Humanism in the Renaissance: Regiomontanus's Oration on the Dignity and Utility of the Mathematical Sciences / N. M. Swerdlow. Design for Experimenting / Jed Z. Buchwald. Mediations: Enlightenment Balancing Acts, or the Technologies of Rationalism / M. Norton Wise -- The Philosophers Look Ahead. How We Relate Theory to Observation / Nancy Cartwright. Working in a New World: The Taxonomic Solution / Ian Hacking -- Afterwords / Thomas S. Kuhn |
| Analysis |
Science Philosophy |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book" - t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Kuhn, Thomas S.
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Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996
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Science -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Horwich, Paul.
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Kuhn, Thomas S.
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| LC no. |
92000518 |
| ISBN |
0262082160 |
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0262581388 (paperback) |
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