| Title | : | The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change |
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| ISBN | : | 0226458067 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780226458069 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1977 |
| Awards | : | National Book Award Finalist Science (Paperback) (1980) |
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change Reviews
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Brilliant!
Kuhn is one of very few Scientific Historians, who happens to also be a philosopher. In many ways, he is the father of coming at the three disciplines in this manner. There are so many truly brilliant concepts in this book, it is hard to really point any any one area that would sell this book.
Some of the themes:
1) How is knowledge captured? What exactly is this learning, particularly as relates to new discoveries? What exactly is happening to the individual as he takes in this knowledge.
2) Why is it that lots of innovation tends to happen all at once and then there are periods of considerably less innovation?
He moves the entire discourse away from just rules based learning to far more complex ideas of learning. For example, so many in education would simply think that if you could get a child to parrot rules, this is learning. However, Kuhn puts forth a wonderful argument for a different type of learning. This plays beautifully into the current work done on plasticity of the mind.
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A real classic... paradigmatic and iconic...
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En este libro se agrupan distintos artículos escritos por Kuhn.
Es interesante conocer de primera mano qué supuso la confusión con respecto al término "paradigma" y cómo esto le condujo a renombrarlo como: "matriz disciplinar". -
This is an exploration and sometime defense of Kuhn's work. Each of the essays seems to go on a little too long and left me behind every now and again.
