Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science (Revolutions in Science) - Hardcover

Fuller, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840464682 ISBN 13: 9781840464689

Verlag: Icon Books Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, a young historian and an old philosopher, met just once to discuss the nature of science. Yet, for the last half-century this encounter has dominated public discussions on the topic. Nearly every course on the scientific method today makes reference to 'Kuhn vs. Popper' as a watershed, in which Kuhn's supposedly pluralistic vision of science triumphed over Popper's more monolithic one.
The future of science itself depends on understanding the philosophical, political and even religious basis of what separated Kuhn and Popper. Drawing on his own original examination of the Kuhn archives at MIT, Fuller provides a reliable guide to these matters. The result is a account of a landmark confrontation in which 'the wrong guy' won.

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Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

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• Verlag: Icon Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840464682
• ISBN 13: 9781840464689
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
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