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Interpreting the History of Evolutionary Biology through a Kuhnian ...


The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development.

Repertoires: A post-Kuhnian perspective on scientific change and ...

Special section on “Integration in biology: Philosophical perspectives on the dynamics of interdisciplinarity”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological ...

THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE OF THOMAS ...

... in history of science in a sense, I started by reading ... Considering the activities involved in interpretation, Kuhn examined both the attempts of.

13 A New Image for Science - Oxford Academic

The history of every branch of science is a history of sequential revolutions. Kuhn compared this process to evolutionary biology and to changes of styles in ...

Scientific Revolutions - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Kuhn dismissed Popper's notion of revolution in perpetuity as a contradiction in terms, on the ground that a revolution is something that ...

The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and ...

The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the Modern Synthesis in the early twentieth century and has since expanded into a ...

Do Kuhnian Revolutions Suit Biology? - DSpace

modern science in their respective fields. This inquiry will also address the status of Charles. Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) as a revolutionary ...

Evolutionary Theory and the Interpretation of Scripture

Those who only take on board the first layer of evolutionary theory may escape most of the dilemmas discussed in this book, but they cannot ...

[with Thomas Reydon]: Discussion: Kuhn's Evolutionary Analogy in ...

Here, we contribute to a minority tradition in the Kuhn literature by interpreting the history of evolutionary biology through the prism of the entire ...

'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty - The New Atlantis

While the physical sciences were the most prominent in the public mind when Kuhn was writing Structure in the early 1960s, today biology is in ascendance. It is ...

Yafeng Shan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

This book not only revisits his legacy in the history and philosophy of science but also explores and reflects on the prospect of the Kuhnian philosophy.

Kuhn - Lawrence University

Focus of Kuhn lecture: Kuhn views the development of scientific knowledge and scientific disciplines as analogous to biological evolution. Outline:

Thomas Kuhn On Scientific Revolution: How Does ... - TheCollector

Instead of conceiving the history of science as a linear process of accumulation, he defends an image in which periods of stability are followed ...

Kuhn's Darwinism – from a darwinian point of view

In order to do so, one has to interpret the theory of evolution in a non- neopositivistic/non-Neo-Darwinian, indeed 'Kuhnian' way, as it is done in cybernetic ...

Evolutionary Philosophy of Science: A New Image of Science ... - MDPI

Next, two historical case studies from the biological sciences are reconstructed to illustrate the robustness of the proposed evolutionary ...

References | In the Light of Evolution: Volume III: Two Centuries of ...

In Modern Controversies in Evolutionary Biology in Science and Technology in ... The ILE series aims to interpret phenomena in various areas of biology through ...

Incommensurability in Science - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies

Instead of the traditional image of continuous progress toward truth, Kuhn argues that scientific development is an evolutionary process away ...

Biology's last paradigm shift and the evolution of evolutionary theory

According to Kuhn, change in science is comprised of two distinct and alternating phases: during “normal science” scientists use the dominant ...

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Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) developed a theory of science that directly challenges that of Karl Popper. He argues that most of the time science (what he called Normal ...

David Hull's generalized natural selection as an explanation for ...

... Kuhn have employed evolutionary idiom in describing scientific change ... Philosophy, History of Science, Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biology: Genetics.