PHIL 221 Lecture 9: 9th class
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American physicist, historian and philosopher of science. He wrote a book on revolution in astronomy before writing structure. He was thinking of a history of science differently from the logicians thought about science. He wrote a very important book for the history and philosophy of science. This book criticised logical positivism and established the history and the philosophy of science as it"s own discipline. This book was originally published as part of the volume of the. International encyclopaedia of uni ed science even if it criticised logical positivism. He asked questions about the socio-historical subject: Kuhn studied scienti c theories as historical products of concrete human activity instead of abstract products. This is different from the logical positivist approach and looks at the subject from a different angle, a historical angle in some way. The structure of scienti c revolutions is a constant temporal structure since. The structure of scienti c revolutions it is always being added to.
