Review: Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency, by Menachem Fisch

IF 0.3 4区教育学 Q4 BIOLOGY

American Biology Teacher Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI:10.1525/ABT.2019.81.3.210

Sara Fox

引用次数: 11

Abstract

Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency . By Menachem Fisch. 2017. University of Chicago Press. (ISBN 022651451). 293 pp. Paperback, $37.50. In Creatively Undecided , Menachem Fisch attempts to create a framework to explain how scientific consensus can be shifted, such as when new evidence necessitates the revision or dismissal of a scientific theory. This framework is necessary, Fisch postulates, due to the unfinished work of Thomas Kuhn. Kuhn was a physicist who coined the term paradigm shift , alleging that changes in scientific fields tend to be sudden and monumental, rather than gradual and persistent. Fisch argues that Kuhn developed this idea of the paradigm shift but did not satisfactorily explain the mechanism by …

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书评:《创造性的未定:走向科学代理的历史和哲学》，作者:梅纳赫姆·菲施

创造性的未定:走向科学代理的历史和哲学。Menachem Fisch著，2017。芝加哥大学出版社。(ISBN 022651451)。293页，平装本，37.50美元。在《创造性的未定》一书中，Menachem Fisch试图创建一个框架来解释科学共识是如何转变的，比如当新的证据需要修改或驳回科学理论时。Fisch假定，由于Thomas Kuhn未完成的工作，这个框架是必要的。库恩是一位物理学家，他创造了“范式转换”一词，声称科学领域的变化往往是突然和巨大的，而不是渐进和持久的。Fisch认为，库恩提出了范式转换的观点，但并没有令人满意地解释其机制。

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American Biology Teacher BIOLOGY-EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

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0.80

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20.00%

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108

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