Creatively Undecided

Creatively Undecided
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780226514659
ISBN-13 : 022651465X
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Book Synopsis Creatively Undecided by : Menachem Fisch

Download or read book Creatively Undecided written by Menachem Fisch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 have standing in the field, criticism from the outside is essential. We may not be able to be sufficiently self-critical on our own, but trusted criticism from outside, even if resisted, can begin to change our perspective—at which point transformative self-criticism becomes a real option.


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