Edwin H. -C. Hung

Beyond Kuhn (eBook, ePUB)

Scientific Explanation, Theory Structure, Incommensurability and Physical Necessity

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive notion of "paradigm shift" in terms of the new concept of representational space. In doing so, this book puts forward the first-ever unitary theory that solves the five central problems in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, incommensurability, scientific change and physical necessity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351955638
• Artikelnr.: 47956426

Autorenporträt

Edwin H.-C. Hung is Reader/Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he obtained his doctoral degree (D.Phil.). He has been an honorary fellow of Linacre College (Oxford), a research associate at the Center of Philosophy and History of Science of Boston University, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, MIT, and the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and philosophy of language, including the book, The Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1997, 502 pages).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword I, Rom Harré
Foreword II, Peter Lipton
Preface
Introduction: The road to Kuhn and beyond
A new logic of explanation
Structure of conceptual theories I: category systems
Structure of conceptual theories II: representational spaces
Structure of conceptual theories III: languages
Incommensurability
Scientific growth
Physical necessity: a cross-theoretic notion
Projective explanation: deduction lost, deduction regained
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.