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Philosophy Of Science

An annotated collection of 3 books on philosophy of science, spanning 1962 to 1970. Featuring works by Thomas S. Kuhn, Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.) — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962 · University of Chicago Press

Kuhn's argument changed how the world thinks about science: progress is not cumulative but punctuated — long periods of "normal science" within a paradigm, interrupted by revolutions that replace the paradigm entirely. T…

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Karl Popper, 1963 · Routledge & Kegan Paul

Popper's central claim: what makes a theory scientific is not that it can be confirmed but that it can be refuted, and the growth of knowledge happens through bold conjectures followed by serious attempts to disprove the…

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge

Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), 1970 · Cambridge University Press

The published record of the 1965 London colloquium where Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos and Feyerabend confronted each other's views on how science changes. Lakatos's contribution — the methodology of scientific research programm…