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Creatively Undecided - Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

English · Paperback / Softback

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For many, the two key thinkers about science in the twentieth century are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, and one of the key questions in contemplating science is how to make sense of theory change. In Creatively Undecided, philosopher Menachem Fisch defends a new way to make sense of the rationality of scientific revolutions. He argues, loosely following Kuhn, for a strong notion of the framework dependency of all scientific practice, while at the same time he shows how such frameworks can be deemed the possible outcomes of keen rational deliberation along Popperian lines. Fisch's innovation is to call attention to the importance of ambiguity and indecision in scientific change and advancement. Specifically, he backs the problem up, looking not at how we might communicate rationally across an already existing divide but at the rational incentive to create an alternative framework in the first place. Creatively Undecided will be essential reading for philosophers of science, and its vivid case study in Victorian mathematics will draw in historians.

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Authors Menachem Fisch, Fisch Menachem
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9780226514512
ISBN 978-0-226-51451-2
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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