{"product_id":"kuhns-evolutionary-social-epistemology-hardback-9781107012233","title":"Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology (Hardback) 9781107012233","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDefends Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn's view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eK. Brad Wray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107012233, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, 3 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… highly recommended … The book provides concrete points of cooperative and collaborative studies of the science of sociological and philosophical perspective …' Markus Seidel, Rezensionen: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eKuhn'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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures and table\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Kuhn's insight\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Revolutions, Paradigms, and Incommensurability: 1. Scientific revolutions as lexical changes\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Copernican revolution revisited\u003cbr\u003e 3. Kuhn and the discovery of paradigms\u003cbr\u003e 4. The epistemic significance of incommensurability\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Kuhn's Evolutionary Epistemology: 5. Kuhn's historical perspective\u003cbr\u003e 6. Truth and the end of scientific inquiry\u003cbr\u003e 7. Scientific specialization\u003cbr\u003e 8. Taking stock of the evolutionary dimensions of Kuhn's epistemology\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Kuhn's Social Epistemology: 9. Kuhn's constructionism\u003cbr\u003e 10. What makes Kuhn's epistemology a social epistemology?\u003cbr\u003e 11. How does a new theory come to be accepted?\u003cbr\u003e 12. Where the road has taken us: a synthesis\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20science%20%5BPDA%5D%22\"\u003ePDA\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20epistemology%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20of%20knowledge%20%5BHPK%5D%22\"\u003eHPK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005815083288,"sku":"9781107012233","price":77.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107012233i_d34c1b37-4718-4397-a25b-f28cc19b8716.jpg?v=1691360979","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kuhns-evolutionary-social-epistemology-hardback-9781107012233","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}