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Paradigms explained : rethinking Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science
- Title
- Paradigms explained : rethinking Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science / Erich von Dietze.
- Author
- Von Dietze, Erich, 1962-
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BD225 .V66 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 182 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-178) and index.
- Contents
- The Ideal of Certainty: Foundationalism and Its Problems -- The Emergence of Foundationalism -- Positivism and Empiricism -- Some Difficulties for Foundationalism -- Popper's Developments -- Further Difficulties for Foundationalism -- Finding a Way Forward -- Kuhn's Paradigm Theory -- Theories as Structured Wholes -- Paradigms -- Normal Science -- Crisis and Breakdown -- The Transitional Phase -- Acceptance of the Need for a New Paradigm -- The Adoption of a New Paradigm -- The Early Paradigm Debate -- Key Areas of Debate over Paradigm Theory -- Feyerabend's Methodological Anarchism -- The Paradigms Debate -- Kuhn's Clarifications, Responses and Developments -- The Early Clarifications -- Clarifying the Term Paradigm -- After Paradigms -- Applying Kuhn's Paradigms: An Educational Critique -- Kuhn's Educational Focus -- Critical Thought in Education -- Education in Normal Science -- Education and Revolutionary Science -- The Role of Textbooks -- The Role of the Teacher and the Place of the Student -- Kuhn's Second Thoughts on Paradigm Education -- Learning Lexicons -- Coherence Theory of Evidence: A Way Forward -- The Question of Evidence -- A Coherence Critique of Foundationalist Epistemology -- Science: An Adventure of the Human Spirit -- Kuhn's Early Revisions Revisited -- Lexicons and Coherence -- Objections to Coherence Views -- Quine and Evidence -- A Coherence Theory of Evidence -- Kuhn and Coherence.
- ISBN
- 0275969991
- 9780275969998
- LCCN
- 00069860
- 9780175969998
- OCLC
- ocm45835080
- 45835080
- SCSB-9578953
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library