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This title in other formats:The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interviewby Thomas S. Kuhn
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published in 1962, is one of the most important works of our time. It has been translated into twenty five languages, and the English edition alone has sold more than one million copies. Structure established Kuhn as the century's most influential philosopher of science, but during the last twenty years of his life, Kuhn was radically rethinking the central concepts of that work. When he died in 1996, he left an unfinished sequel to Structure and a plan for a collection of essays written since 1970. Divided into three parts, The Road since Structure is the fullest record we now have of the new direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. The first part of the book consists of essays, philosophical rather than historical in nature, in which Kuhn refines the basic concepts set forth in Structureparadigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress. In part two, Kuhn replies at length to criticisms of his earlier work. Here the reader will find Kuhn arguing his position with some of the most significant philosophers of the time, including Paul Feyerabend and Karl Popper. The third part of the volume is the transcript of a remarkable autobiographical interview with Kuhn conducted in Athens in 1995, not quite a year before his death. Here, the usually reticent Kuhn discusses his own intellectual developmenthis family and upbringing, his education, the influence of his training as a physicist, his war work, his relations with his colleagues, the responses to Structureas well as his struggles to define his philosophical position both before and after that landmark work. The Road since Structure is the definitive companion to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Forceful and accessible, it illuminates and further develops Kuhn's classic book, and it will intrigue everyone who has been engaged by Structure and the debates it launched. In it they will find the story not only of Kuhn's development but also of the man himself. Book News Annotation:Conant and Haugeland, both professors of philosophy at the University
of Chicago, provide the most complete collection of Kuhn's thought
since The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published in
1962. Included are essays which refine the basic concepts set forth
in Structure, replies to critics, and an edited transcript of a
tape-recorded three-day discussion between Kuhn and Aristides Baltas,
Kostas Gavroglu, and Vassiliki Kindi.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Published in 1962, Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is one of the most important works of the 20th century. When he died, Kuhn left an unfinished sequel and a group of essays written since 1970. "The Road since Structure" includes these essays, along with Kuhn's replies to criticism and an interview with Kuhn before his death in 1996. Photos. Synopsis:Thomas Kuhn will undoubtedly be remembered primarily for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a book that introduced one of the most influential conceptions of scientific progress to emerge during the twentieth century. The Road Since Structure, assembled with Kuhn's input before his death in 1996, follows the development of his thought through the later years of his life: collected here are several essays extending and rethinking the perspectives of Structure as well as an extensive, fascinating autobiographical interview in which Kuhn discusses the course of his life and philosophy. Synopsis:Foreword Jehane R. KuhnEditors' IntroductionPART 1: RECONCEIVING SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS1. What Are Scientific Revolutions?2. Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability3. Possible Worlds in History of Science4. The Road since Structure5. The Trouble with the Historical Philosophy of SciencePART 2: COMMENTS AND REPLIES6. Reflections on My Critics7. Theory Change as Structure Change: Comments on the Sneed Formalism8. Metaphor in Science9. Rationality and Theory Choice10. The Natural and Human Sciences11. AfterwordsPART 3: A DISCUSSION WITH THOMAS S. KUHNPublications of Thomas S. Kuhn About the AuthorJames Conant is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of two books, Hilary Putnam: Realism with a Human Face and Hilary Putnam: Words and Life. John Haugeland is also a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books, Artificial Intelligence, the Very Idea and Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind, and the editor of two books, Mind Design and Mind Design II. Table of ContentsForeword Jehane R. Kuhn
Editors' Introduction PART 1: RECONCEIVING SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS 1. What Are Scientific Revolutions? 2. Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability 3. Possible Worlds in History of Science 4. The Road since Structure 5. The Trouble with the Historical Philosophy of Science PART 2: COMMENTS AND REPLIES 6. Reflections on My Critics 7. Theory Change as Structure Change: Comments on the Sneed Formalism 8. Metaphor in Science 9. Rationality and Theory Choice 10. The Natural and Human Sciences 11. Afterwords PART 3: A DISCUSSION WITH THOMAS S. KUHN Publications of Thomas S. Kuhn What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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