Kuhnian Image of Science - Time for a Decisive Transformation?

The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

List of contents

Introduction, Moti Mizrahi / Part I: Questioning the Kuhnian Image of Science / 1. Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis: What's the Argument?, Moti Mizrahi / 2. Modeling Scientific Development: Lessons from Thomas Kuhn, Alexandra Argamakova / 3. Can Kuhn's Taxonomic Incommensurability be an Image of Science? Seungbae Park / 4. The Demise of the Incommensurability Thesis, Howard Sankey / Part II: Defending the Kuhnian Image of Science / 5. The Kuhnian Straw Man, Vasso Kindi / 6. Kuhn, Pedagogy, and Practice: A Local Reading of Structure, Lydia Patton / Part III: Revising the Kuhnian Image of Science / 7. Redefining Revolutions, Andrew Aberdein / 8. Revolution or Evolution in Science? A Role for the Incommensurability Thesis? James A. Marcum / Part IV: Abandoning the Kuhnian Image of Science / 9. The Biological Metaphors of Scientific Change, Barbara Gabriella Renzi and Giulio Napolitano / 10.Beyond Kuhn: Methodological Contextualism and Partial Paradigms, Darrell P. Rowbottom / About the Contributors / Index

About the author

Moti Mizrahi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Institute of Technology.

Summary

The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

Product details

• Authors: Moti Mizrahi, Moti Mizrahi Mizrahi
• Assisted by: Dr. Moti Mizrahi (Editor), Moti Mizrahi (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786603401
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-340-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society; Collective Studies in Knowledg; Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society; Collective Studies in Knowledg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Empiricism, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge