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more than Kuhn himself - concluded
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the incommensurable theories are tr
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systematically misunderstood. Consi
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progress. However, Kuhn and Popper
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. CHAPTER 7 .WHY PHILOSOPHERS GET N
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Darwin’s theory of natural select
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But the complete alienation of phil
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having supped on the gruel of norma
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permits the survival of chance muta
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iochemist Lawrence J. Henderson (18
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. CHAPTER 8 .SO, WHY ARE PHILOSOPHE
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Cold War science policy - namely, t
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pure inquiry. Exceptionally disappo
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would seem to require the abandonme
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what an omnipotent deity friendly t
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the rather technical and tedious wo
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narrator considers herself at least
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would now say) awaiting propitious
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were secular Jews who did not exhib
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‘conjectures and refutations’.
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At various points in Western histor
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is how second-order colonialism fee
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external grants, scientists have be
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case through acquaintance with chur
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showed how Galileo had to resort to
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grounds for what the Jesuits call t
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is rather different. For him, a sci
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Kuhn was that if design in nature i
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except that the venue should provid
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effectively preoccupied with the pr
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whereby our liabilities simulate vi
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Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), f
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However, from its inception, the un
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the uncharted domain. This rather l
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producers in their domains. Here it
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original distinction between the tr
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Indeed, what had made the natural s
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influence dissipated in the long te
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philosophical disciplines?) that sh
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Here we see an important difference
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tendency of experimental psychology
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that the Enlightenment has yet to b
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people would need to come to regard
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. CHAPTER 14 .POPPER AND ADORNO DIV
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idealised understanding of scientif
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new evidence), criticism must opera
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oth of which were in evidence in th
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translated into emancipatory action
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egan in the Weimar Republic as a by
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address their own. For the many soc
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ment of their ideals. By failing to
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. CHAPTER 15 .HOW TO BE RESPONSIBLE
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sciences. (Back then, the philosoph
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a certain way would have increased
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over time. In other words, it is al
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A good model for understanding the
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use ‘philosopher’ as the name o
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whenever someone infers the validit
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The genetic fallacy is not designed
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unwitting captives to that context
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Heidegger’s ideas from Heidegger
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However, this question became diffi
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. CHAPTER 17 .IS THOMAS KUHN THEAME
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philosophers came to rely on Heideg
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alternative contemporaries - have c
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say something similar in the case o
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1960s - he did not believe that a p
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world-historic spirit has played a
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out what is now often called the
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mention the analytic philosophy tha
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physical sciences than Kuhn, but th
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features from two or more historica
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I have already raised the examples
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self-serving over time, since we ar
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1978). Kuhn’s historiographical e
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Rather than listing many texts of v
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‘received view’ in the philosop
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Franklin, The Science of Conjecture
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qualified defence of genomic-based
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lishers, 1997). Kuhn’s views on h