World changes : Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science / edited by Paul Horwich.

Date:
[1993], ©1993
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Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1993], ©1993.

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vi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

"A Bradford book"
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

Thomas Kuhn, colleague and friend / Carl G. Hempel -- Carnap, Kuhn, and the philosophy of scientific methodology / John Earman -- Remarks on the history of science and the history of philosophy / Michael Friedman -- Rationality and paradigm change in science / Ernan McMullin -- A mathematicians' mutiny, with morals / J.L. Heilbron -- Science and humanism in the Renaissance : Regiomontanus's Oration on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences / N.M. Swerdlow -- Design for experimenting / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Mediations : enlightenment balancing acts, or the technologies of rationalism / M. Norton Wise -- How we relate theory to observation / Nancy Cartwright -- Working in a new world : the taxonomic solution / Ian Hacking -- Afterwords / Thomas S. Kuhn.

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  • 0262082160