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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818886203321

Titolo

Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited / / edited by Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-24320-8

0-203-10315-7

1-283-87187-4

1-136-24321-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

ArabatzisTheodore <1965->

KindiVasso <1957->

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Paradigm (Theory of knowledge)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in Aug. 2008 in Athens, Greece.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Origins and early reception -- pt. II. Key concepts -- pt. III. Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work.This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure's publica