Perspectives on Kuhn

Perspectives on Kuhn PDF Author: Leandro Giri
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031163710
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn’s work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other books, this volume picks up the gauntlet to develop, from a contemporary perspective, some points that can be improved in the light of recent findings and conceptualizations in metatheory. Thus, this work pays a visit to the classical Kuhnian landscapes, but rather proposing interpretations, it takes them as the starting point to go further. One hundred years after Kuhn's birth, the editors and authors rekindle the passion and interest that have always surrounded the work of the great Boston philosopher and historian.

Perspectives on Kuhn

Perspectives on Kuhn PDF Author: Leandro Giri
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031163710
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Book Description
This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn’s work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other books, this volume picks up the gauntlet to develop, from a contemporary perspective, some points that can be improved in the light of recent findings and conceptualizations in metatheory. Thus, this work pays a visit to the classical Kuhnian landscapes, but rather proposing interpretations, it takes them as the starting point to go further. One hundred years after Kuhn's birth, the editors and authors rekindle the passion and interest that have always surrounded the work of the great Boston philosopher and historian.

Global Perspectives on Megatrends

Global Perspectives on Megatrends PDF Author: Berthold M. Kuhn
Publisher: Ibidem Press
ISBN: 9783838215631
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Berthold M. Kuhn and Dimitrios L. Margellos analyze future global trends. They discuss megatrends such as climate change and sustainability, digitalization, growing inequalities, urbanization and smart cities, green economy, and sustainable finance, as well as new trends in democracy and governance, migration, and culture.

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn PDF Author: Thomas Nickles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521796484
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The Work of Communication

The Work of Communication PDF Author: Timothy Kuhn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317397983
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism, heralded by social and organizational theorists alike, increasingly focus attention on communication as both vital to the conduct of work and as imperative to organizational performance. Yet most accounts of communication in organization studies fail to understand an alternate sense of the "work of communication" in the constitution of organizations, work practices, and economies. This book responds to that lack by portraying communicative practices—as opposed to individuals, interests, technologies, structures, organizations, or institutions—as the focal units of analysis in studies of the social and organizational problems occasioned by contemporary capitalism. Rather than suggesting that there exists a canonically "correct" route communicative analyses must follow, The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism explores the value of transcending longstanding divides between symbolic and material factors in studies of working and organizing. The recognition of dramatic shifts in technological, economic, and political forces, along with deep interconnections among the myriad of factors shaping working and organizing, sows doubts about whether organization studies is up to the vital task of addressing the social problems capitalism now creates. Kuhn, Ashcraft, and Cooren argue that novel insights into those social problems are possible if we tell different stories about working and organizing. To aid authors of those stories, they develop a set of conceptual resources that they capture under the mantle of communicative relationality. These resources allow analysts to profit from burgeoning interest in notions such as sociomateriality, posthumanism, performativity, and affect. It goes on to illustrate the benefits that investigations of work and organization can realize from communicative relationality by presenting case studies that analyze (a) the becoming of an idea, from its inception to solidification, (b) the emergence of what is taken to be the "the product" in high-tech startup entrepreneurship, and (c) the branding of work (in this case, academic writing and commercial aviation) through affective economies. Taken together, the book portrays "the work of communication" as simultaneously about how work in the "new economy" revolves around communicative practice and about how communication serves as a mode of explanation with the potential to cultivate novel stories about working and organizing. Aimed at academics, researchers, and policy makers, this book’s goal is to make tangible the contributions of communication for thinking about contemporary social and organizational problems.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions PDF Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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The Road Since Structure

The Road Since Structure PDF Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226457987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Divided into three parts, this work is a record of the direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. It consists of essays in which he refines the basic concepts set forth in "Structure"--Paradigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress.

Beyond Kuhn

Beyond Kuhn PDF Author: Edwin H.-C. Hung
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351955632
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive notion of 'paradigm shift' in terms of the new concept of representational space. In doing so, Edwin H.-C. Hung is able to produce the first-ever unitary theory that solves the five central problems in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, incommensurability, scientific change and physical necessity. The book identifies the main task of science as representing reality. This involves the construction of a representational space and the subsequent modeling of reality with configurations of 'objects' in that space. Newton's mechanics, Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, then, all serve as representational spaces. 'Beyond Kuhn' is a significant progression in scientific methodology. Other than serving as a sequel to Kuhn's 'Scientific Revolutions', it will be of great use in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and education.

Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions

Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions PDF Author: Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226355519
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work. Bibliography.

Interpreting Kuhn

Interpreting Kuhn PDF Author: K. Brad Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498299
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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"One might wonder if there is anything new to say about Thomas Kuhn and his views on science. Scholarship on Kuhn, though, has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. This is so for a number reasons"--

Perspectives from the European Language Portfolio

Perspectives from the European Language Portfolio PDF Author: Barbel Kuhn (Ed)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415675545
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Annotation The editors of this volume believe that there is a need to reflect on the significant contribution that the ELP has delivered for language learning and teaching, and to critically evaluate its achievements. This volume offers a range of investigations from theoretical studies to practical cases around these issues.