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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic

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內容簡介 Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the “paradigm shift,” social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn’s work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions itself marks no less of a paradigm shift than those it describes. In Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” at Fifty, leading social scientists and philosophers explore the origins of Kuhn’s masterwork and its legacy fifty years on. These essays exhume important historical context for Kuhn’s work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and Kuhn’s own intellectual biography: his experiences as a physics graduate student, his close relationship with psychologists before and after the publication of Structure, and the Cold War framework of terms such as “world view” and “paradigm.” Thomas S. Kuhn�s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR) is one of the most important books published in the last hundred years. His language and concepts have permeated contemporary thought, and his arguments and positions are still alive and of real importance. Kuhn�s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty is a collection of essays by leading social scientists and philosophers that explores the origins of Kuhn�s masterwork and its legacy a half-century on. The authors exhume important historical context for Kuhn�s work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and more. They situateSSR within Kuhn�s own intellectual biography, too: his experiences as a physics graduate student doing quintessential �normal science,� his close relationships with psychologists both before and after the publication ofSSR , and the Cold War framework of concepts such as �world view� and �paradigm.� The book�s citation history is even used to revealSSR�s shifting audiences � and changes in scholarly reading habits. And, of course, the contributors explore the central features ofSSR by addressing the import of key Kuhnian concepts, both then and now, including �revolution,� �scientific community,� and � inevitably � the elusive yet still enticing �paradigm.� Anyone interested in Kuhn�s ideas will profit from reading this book.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Robert J. Richards is the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine; professor in the Departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology and in the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; and director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, all at the University of Chicago. Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and is visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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