Kuhn vs. Popper The Struggle for the Soul of Science

Name: Kuhn vs. Popper The Struggle for the Soul of Science
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ISBN: 9780231134286

ISBN-10: 0231134282

ISBN-13: 9780231134286

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steve Fuller

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutionshas sold over a million copies in more than twenty languages and has remained one of the ten most cited academic works for the past half century. In contrast, Karl Popper's seminal book The Logic of Scientific Discoveryhas lapsed into relative obscurity. Although the two men debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since. Almost universally recognized as the modern watershed in the philosophy of science, Kuhn's relativistic vision of shifting paradigms -- which asserted that science was just another human activity, like art or philosophy, only…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 0.71" wide x 0.86" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



In Search of the Causes of a Non-Event Kuhn and Popper


A Case of Mistaken Identities Popperian Suspicions and Kuhnian Vindication


We've Been Here Before


The Prehistory of the Debate Dialectics as the Pulse of Scientific Progress


A Parting Shot at the Misunderstanding Why Philosophers


Get No Respect from Scientists


So, Why Are Philosophers of Science Pro-Science?


The Return of the Repressed


Philosophers as Tory Historians of Science


The Religious Unconscious of the Debate Do


We Believe by Evidence or by Decision?


A Very Short History of Epistemology


The University as the Absent Presence of the Kuhn-Popper


Debate Popper and Adorno United


The Rationalist Left at Positivism's Wake Popper and Adorno Divided


The Rationalist Left Haunted by Historicism


How to be Responsible for Ideas -- the Popperian


Way Failing the Popperian Test for Intellectual


Responsibility: Rorty on Heidegger Is Thomas Kuhn the American Heidegger?