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The Essential Tension
Author | : Thomas S. Kuhn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:488790805 |
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The Essential Tension
Author | : Thomas S. Kuhn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226458059 |
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"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."-Sir Peter Medawar, Nature
The Essential Tension
Author | : Sonya Bahar |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9402414770 |
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'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one collective unit emerging from the cooperative interactions of its constituent (and mutually competitive) parts has its roots in the ancient world. More recently, it has illuminated studies of animal behavior, and played a controversial role in evolutionary biology. In Part I, the author explores the historical development of the idea of a collectivity in biological systems, from early speculations on the sociology of human crowd behavior, through the mid-twentieth century debates over the role of group selection in evolution, to the notion of the selfish gene. Part II investigates the balance between competition and cooperation in a range of contemporary biological problems, from flocking and swarming to experimental evolution and the evolution of multicellularity. Part III addresses experimental studies of cooperation and competition, as well as controversial ideas such as the evolution of evolvability and Stephen Jay Gould’s suggestion that “spandrels” at one level of selection serve as possible sources of variability for the next higher level. Finally, building on the foundation established in the preceding chapters, the author arrives at a provocative new proposition: as a result of the essential tension between competition and cooperation, multiple levels may be essential in order for evolutionary processes to occur at all.
Marxism and Workers Self Management
Author | : David Prychitko |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1991-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021828309 |
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Prychitko offers a reinterpretation of Marx's vision of socialism by arguing that Marx's understanding of humankind led him to a utopian goal of decentralized socialism based on the total abolition of market exchange.
The Essential Tension Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
Author | : T. S. Kuhn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1417594015 |
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The Philosophy of Science
Author | : Richard Boyd,Philip Gasper,J. D. Trout |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262521563 |
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The more than forty readings in this anthology cover the most important developments of the past six decades, charting the rise and decline of logical positivism and the gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major issues and theoretical options in the field. As an introduction to the philosophy of science, it stands out for its scope, its coverage of both historical and contemporary developments, and its detailed introductions to each area discussed.
Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50 Years On
Author | : William J. Devlin,Alisa Bokulich |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319133836 |
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In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.
The Essential Tension
Author | : Sonya Bahar |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789402410549 |
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'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one collective unit emerging from the cooperative interactions of its constituent (and mutually competitive) parts has its roots in the ancient world. More recently, it has illuminated studies of animal behavior, and played a controversial role in evolutionary biology. In Part I, the author explores the historical development of the idea of a collectivity in biological systems, from early speculations on the sociology of human crowd behavior, through the mid-twentieth century debates over the role of group selection in evolution, to the notion of the selfish gene. Part II investigates the balance between competition and cooperation in a range of contemporary biological problems, from flocking and swarming to experimental evolution and the evolution of multicellularity. Part III addresses experimental studies of cooperation and competition, as well as controversial ideas such as the evolution of evolvability and Stephen Jay Gould’s suggestion that “spandrels” at one level of selection serve as possible sources of variability for the next higher level. Finally, building on the foundation established in the preceding chapters, the author arrives at a provocative new proposition: as a result of the essential tension between competition and cooperation, multiple levels may be essential in order for evolutionary processes to occur at all.