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Title: CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIONS
By: Paul Thagard
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0691024901
ISBN 13: 9780691024905
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Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 14 December, 1992
Pages: 310
Description: 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. This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the transformation of scientific conceptual systems.
Synopsis: 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 The history of science contains dramatic episodes of revolutionary change in which whole systems of concepts have been replaced by new systems.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.
Publication: US
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Prizes: Winner of Association of American Publishers Award for Best
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