The Road Since Structure

Thomas S. Kuhn

344 pages, parution le 31/12/2002

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Résumé

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.

"The essays fall into three groups, each arranged chronologically. The first shows the development of Kuhn's thought from 1980 through 1990, the second consists of his responses to criticisms of other philosophers, the last is a candid, highly interesting and informative interview Kuhn did a year before his death. . . . His work is central to the question of the relation of science and culture."--Library Journal

"It's sometimes claimed that Kuhn toned down his radical views after Structure, but this is a mistake. He did occasionally repudiate earlier ideas, but the bulk of his later work is a significant articulation and defense of his fundamental views, not a retraction. . . . The Road Since Structure ends with a fascinating 68-page interview with Kuhn, recorded a year before his death. This gives a strong sense of his personality and of the development of his ideas and career. It brings out the extent to which the history of science was for him from the start a vehicle for philosophical inquiry."--Peter Lipton, London Review of Books

Contents

I- Reconceiving Scientific Revolutions

What Are Scientific Revolutions?
Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability
Possible Worlds in History of Science
The Road since Structure
The Trouble with the Historical Philosophy of Science

II- Comments And Replies

Reflections on My Critics
Theory Change as Structure Change: Comments on the Sneed Formalism
Metaphor in Science
Rationality and Theory Choice
The Natural and the Human Sciences
Afterwords

III- A Discussion WithThomas S. Kuhn

L'auteur - Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) fut un grand historien et philosophe des sciences. Il a enseigné aux universités de Berkeley, Princeton et au Massachusets Institute of Technology (Boston). Il est notamment l'auteur de La Révolution copernicienne (Fayard, 1973) et La Tension essentielle : tradition et changement dans les sciences (Gallimard, 1970).

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s)	Thomas S. Kuhn
Parution	31/12/2002
Nb. de pages	344
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	465g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780226457994
ISBN13	978-0-226-45799-4