MARC Record from Western Washington University

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050 00 $aQ175.46$b.F85 2004
100 1 $aFuller, Steve,$d1959-
245 10 $aKuhn vs. Popper :$bthe struggle for the soul of science /$cSteve Fuller.
246 3 $aKuhn versus Popper
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2004.
300 $aix, 143 p. ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aRevolutions in science
520 $a"Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold over a million copies in more than twenty languages and has remained one of the ten most cited academic works for the past half century. In contrast, Karl Popper's seminal book The Logic of Scientific Discovery has lapsed into relative obscurity. Although the two men debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic over since." "Almost universally recognized as the modern watershed in the philosophy of science, Kuhn's relativistic vision of shifting paradigms - which asserted that science was just another human activity, like art or philosophy, only more specialized - triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in science's revolutionary potential to falsify society's dogmas. But has this victory been beneficial for science? Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [129]-134) and index.
600 10 $aKuhn, Thomas S.
600 10 $aPopper, Karl Raimund,$cSir,$d1902-
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xSocial aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aRevolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)
856 42 $zBook review$uhttp://www.e-streams.com/es0806%5F7/es0867%5F4211.html
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