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020			_a9781107632905 (pbk)
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100	1		_aWray, K. Brad
245	0	0	_aKuhn's evolutionary social epistemology / _cK. Brad Wray.
250			_a1st pbk ed.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_axiii, 229 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
365			_aGBP _b35.99
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography: p. 210-226.
520			_a"Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for developing an epistemology of science that takes account of the constructive role that social factors play in scientific inquiry. He examines the core concepts of Structure and explains the main characteristics of both Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology, relating Structure to Kuhn's developed view presented in his later writings. The discussion includes analyses of the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the plate tectonics revolution in geology. The book will be useful for scholars working in science studies, sociologists and historians of science as well as philosophers of science"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		4	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
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