The pace of scientific change hasn't slowed since 1963.
Everyone acknowledges that war or its threat drives scientific change faster - from bayonets to nuclear weapons.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offered a general pattern of scientific change.
His earlier theorizing had focused his attention on scientific change, and this suggested a better way of distinguishing science from metaphysics.
Two agent-based models are built to explain how possibly both kinds of progressive scientific change can result from the interactions of individuals exploring an epistemic landscape.
Thagard develops cognitive perspectives on the nature of explanation, mental models, theory choice, and resistance to scientific change, considering disbelief in climate change as a case study.
An already classic work on the recent, violent history of systematics; used as data for Hull's general theories about scientific change.
We will cover issues in observation, experiment, and reasoning, questions about the aims of science, scientific change, and the relations between science and values.
For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is progressive.
For some philosophers, however, the philosophy of science was profoundly transformed by a succession of criticisms that began in the 1950s as some historically minded scholars pondered issues about scientific change.
Andrea Barrett's "Archangel," a collection of five long stories clustered around the turn of the 20th century, each set at a moment of decisive scientific change, is a book Wells might very easily have admired.
