Paradigms and Barriers

Name: Paradigms and Barriers
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226505237
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How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs

Autor: Howard Margolis

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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In "Paradigms and Barriers" Howard Margolis offers an innovative interpretation of Thomas S. Kuhn's...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Howard Margolis

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

1993

Stránok

275

EAN

9780226505237

ISBN

0226505235

Enbook ID

04547225

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

442

Rozmery

168 x 229 x 17

Kompletný popis

In "Paradigms and Barriers" Howard Margolis offers an innovative interpretation of Thomas S. Kuhn's landmark idea of "paradigm shifts, " applying insights from cognitive psychology to the history and philosophy of science. Building upon the arguments in his acclaimed "Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition," Margolis suggests that the breaking down of particular habits of mind--of critical "barriers"--is key to understanding the processes through which one model or concept is supplanted by another. Margolis focuses on those revolutionary paradigm shifts-- such as the switch from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican worldview--where challenges to entrenched habits of mind are marked by incomprehension or indifference to a new paradigm. Margolis argues that the critical problem for a revolutionary shift in thinking lies in the robustness of the habits of mind that reject the new ideas, relative to the habits of mind that accept the new ideas. Margolis applies his theory to famous cases in the history of science, offering detailed explanations for the transition from Ptolemaic to cosmological astronomy, the emergence of probability, the overthrow of phlogiston, and the emergence of the central role of experiment in the seventeenth century. He in turn uses these historical examples to address larger issues, especially the nature of belief formation and contemporary debates about the nature of science and the evolution of scientific ideas. Howard Margolis is a professor in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality" and "Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition," both published by theUniversity of Chicago Press.

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