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- Title Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency
- Author Menachem Fisch
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2018
- ISBN 9780226514512 / 022651451X
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Science - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017014001
- Dewey Decimal Code 501
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Paperback / softback. New. Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention to ambiguity and indecision in science, Menachem Fisch, in Creatively Undecided, offers a new way to look at how scientific understandings change. Following Kuhn, Fisch argues that scientific practice depends on the framework in which it is conducted, but he also shows that those frameworks can be understood as the possible outcomes of the rational deliberation that Popper viewed as central to theory change. How can a scientist subject her standards to rational appraisal if that very act requires the use of those standards? The way out, Fisch argues, is by looking at the incentives scientists have to create alternative frameworks in the first place. Fisch argues that while science can only be transformed from within, by people who…
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