MUCH pious lip-service has been paid to the idea that the history of science and the
philosophy of science are integrally dependent on one another. Yet the marriage between …

Thomas S. Kuhn iniciou sua carreira universitária como físico teórico. As circunstâncias
levaram-no ao estudo da história e a preocupações de natureza filosófica. Trajetória …

Concepts can never be derived logically from experience and be above criticism. But for
didactic and also heuristic purposes such a procedure is inevitable. Moral: Unless one sins …

Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга известного американского ученого Т. Куна
посвящена актуальным проблемам науки. В центре внимания автора находятся …

WE can only guess what historians of the future will say about the condition of present-day
sociology. But it seems safe to anticipate one of their observations. When the Trevelyans of …

This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage
of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book …

The official model of explanation proposed by the logical empiricists, the covering law
model, is subject to familiar objections. The goal of the present paper is to explore an …

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a
subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its …

Das Buch untersucht die Einbeziehung von Personen in die globalisierten
Funktionssysteme der modernen Gesellschaft. Es geht erstens um» Leistungsrollen «, in …

HIS IS THE THIRD publication in the Needs and Opportunities for Study series of the
Institute of Early American History and Culture. Each volume has been the outgrowth of a …