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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Scientific revolutions"”.
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Progress In Scientific Revolutions: The Problem Of Semantic Incommensurability
… of its predecessor, and we cannot verify that scientific knowledge has accumulated across the theory change. Thus, incommensurability creates a problem for the justification of the standard cumulative conception of scientific progress.;To resolve this problem, I distinguish irresolvable strong …
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"Liberal democracy as a Kuhnian paradigm : applying a model confronted by irreconcilable accumulated anomaly as a normative prescription for the organisation of global society"
Thomas S. Kuhn has argued in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" that progress in the natural sciences is not cumulatively incremental, but occurs in leaps following extended developmental periods that are governed by certain theoretical world views that limit and define understanding within …
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Deconstrnction and Reconstruction of Schizophrenia
… using the framework of Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions this paper is divided into three main sections: first, investigating the historical make-up of the psychiatric paradigm and schizophrenia, then reviewing psychological and philosophical critiques regarding schizophrenia, and …
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The idea of paradigm in church history: the notion of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century, from Innocent III to Boniface VIII
… from Thomas Kuhn’s book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" has been popularly understood. This apparently harmonious match is used in this dissertation as the means by which both the hierocratic and the popular understanding of papal monarchy are analysed and critiqued. This …
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Teaching is like engineering: my living educational theory
The traditional view of scientific progress is that human understanding of the world is contiguous and cumulative, with both theories and concepts ‘improving’ incrementally through gradational change. Thomas Kuhn’s (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions challenged this traditional view by …
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Guardians of a Monument: Gundolf, Petersen, Spranger, and a Modern Theoretical Frame
… Path (1971); Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1969; 1972) and Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in this Class? (1980). As it contrasts and de/values two epistemic models, this chapter makes transparent the theoretical framework of this dissertation by advocating an approach …
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F.A. Lange's "standpoint of the ideal" : reform or revolution?
… change as outlined in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970) and uses Collingwood's concept of a 'constellation of absolute presuppositions' as the definition for a social paradigm (An Essay on Metaphysics, 1972). This thesis argues that the 'paradigm' that Lange is critiquing is …
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The normative structure of science, hermeneutics, and leisure experience
Since Thomas Kuhn's (1962) discussion of scientific revolutions, philosophers of science have defined the appropriate unit of analysis for exploring a research tradition as its macrostructure (Anderson, 1986). This macrostructure is composed of the normative philosophical commitments that are …
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Clusters' last stand: Toward a theory of the process of meaning-making in science
… its alleged consequence, the incomparability of scientific theories--which presumably threatens the rationality, objectivity, and progress of science. In this project, I argue that a new and revised cluster theory can be articulated, which meets the objections typically raised against (i) …