Conceptual Revolutions (eBook)

Paul Thagard (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18667-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In this path-breaking work, Paul Thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions. The history of science contains dramatic episodes of revolutionary change in which whole systems of concepts have been replaced by new systems. Thagard provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the transformation of scientific conceptual systems. Thagard examines the Copernican and the Darwinian revolutions and the emergence of Newton's mechanics, Lavoisier's oxygen theory, Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, and the geological theory of plate tectonics. He discusses the psychological mechanisms by which new concepts and links between them are formed, and advances a computational theory of explanatory coherence to show how new theories can be judged to be superior to previous ones.

Autor

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abductive reasoning • Absolute time and space • Activation • Ad hoc hypothesis • Alternative hypothesis • Analogy • Axiom • basic research • Bayesian • Behaviorism • Belief Revision • Calculation • Causality • causal reasoning • Charles Darwin • Classical Conditioning • Classical element • classical mechanics • Classical physics • Concept • Conceptual Change • conceptual system • Connectionism • Consciousness • Consilience • Continental Drift • Contradiction • Copernican Revolution (metaphor) • Correspondence principle • counterexample • Creation Science • Deductive-nomological model • Development of Darwin's theory • Discrimination learning • Evidence of absence • Expert System • Explanation • explanatory power • Family resemblance • Folk Psychology • Form of life (philosophy) • Heuristic • Holism • Humphry Davy • hypothesis • idealism • Indeterminacy of Translation • inference • Information Theory • Interpretations of quantum mechanics • introspection • J. J. Thomson • John B. Watson • larry laudan • Law of effect • Logical Positivism • Luminiferous aether • Modern Physics • Murray Gell-Mann • Natural Theology • Newton's law of universal gravitation • Niels Bohr • Observation • Occam's Razor • pangenesis • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophy of science • Phlogiston theory • Physics education • Psychology • quantum mechanics • reason • Relationship between religion and science • Research Program • Satisficing • Science • Scientific Revolution • scientific theory • Scientist • Simultaneity • Sophistication • Special relativity • Strong Programme • Superstring Theory • The Concept of Mind • theoretical physics • theory • Theory Choice • Theory of relativity • The Philosopher • Thomas Kuhn • Thought • Transmutation of species • Turing Machine • unconscious mind • Unsupervised Learning • Verbal Behavior • Wave–particle duality • william paley
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18667-7 / 0691186677
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18667-2 / 9780691186672