Since the publication of this book in 1962, Kuhn's writings (and many of his ideas, such as "paradigm shift") have been highly influential in academic and popular discourse. This book is must-reading for anyone studying the history and philosophy of science specifically, or cultural or technological change generally. Since Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scienti...(展开全部)

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, i...(展开全部)

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation - the epistemic, modal, and ontic. He argues that the prevailing view (a version of the epistemic conce...(展开全部)

罗杰斯·普莱斯是东英吉利大学(University of East Anglia)的一名历史课讲师，毕业于斯旺西--威尔士大学的现代历史和政治专业。他发表了很多作品，包括1972年的《法兰西第二共和国：社会历史(The French Second Republic: A Social History)》，1981年的《现代法国经济史，1730~1914 (An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914)》，1983年的《法国农村的现代化(The Modernisation of Rural France)》, 以及1987年的《19世纪法国社会史(A Social History of Nineteenth Century France)》。

This text progressively develops the mathematical tools students need to perform economic analysis and assumes the student has a knowledge of calculus and intermediate microeconomic skills. There is a careful integration of the mathematics with the presentation of economics, with emphasis on those techniques most widely used by economists. Examples clearly illustrate the crucia...(展开全部)

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the centre, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the centre. His remarkable work, "On the Revolutions of Heavenl...(展开全部)

The expanded and revised edition of Community tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world.Block draws on a decade of putting these ideas into practice to emphasize what has worked and extract those thoughts that were nice but had no durability.