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Conceptual Revolutions
Paul Thagard
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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
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 The history of science contains dramatic episodes of revolutionary change in which whole systems of concepts have been replaced by new systems.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.
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Psychology, Conceptual system, Form of life (philosophy), Scientist, Consilience, Interpretations of quantum mechanics, Phlogiston theory, Classical physics, Connectionism, Creation science, Scientific revolution, Thomas Kuhn, Indeterminacy of translation, Law of effect, Idealism, Explanatory power, Expert system, Causal reasoning, Special relativity, Observation, Research program, Larry Laudan, The Concept of Mind, Activation, Holism, Consciousness, Luminiferous aether, Science, Quantum mechanics, Analogy, Phenomenon, Explanation, William Paley, Folk psychology, Theory of relativity, Logical positivism, Bayesian, Theory choice, Philosopher, Continental drift, Family resemblance, Modern physics, The Philosopher, Inference, Transmutation of species, Concept, Occam's razor, Deductive-nomological model, Reason, Scientific theory, Theory, Conceptual change, Causality, Classical conditioning, Philosophy of science, Alternative hypothesis, Pangenesis, Hypothesis, Contradiction, Turing machine, Charles Darwin, Unsupervised learning, Ad hoc hypothesis, Information theory, Belief revision, Heuristic, Abductive reasoning, Discrimination learning, Behaviorism, Copernican Revolution (metaphor)