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... was also incredibly life changing for me, I read that in grad school along with Steppenwolf. Both by Hermann Hesse.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhnwas also extremely influential.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test by Tom Wolfe was also pretty good.
... I am on the last half of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. As a casual observer of science, his work seems to have more application than that of Karl Popper and the popular Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Although falsification is appealing and sounds scientific from a philosophical ... ... out of my usual comfort zone
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Pre-reading for my first grad course
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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An area I should know more about
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A ... ... of the appropriate equipment or technology to record and measure data. Sometimes due to refusal to see data. Have a look at Thomas Kuhn's classic "The Structure of scientific revolutions" for more on that one.
I think it was Arthur C Clarke who said that magic is just technology that we ... ... i'm in a similar situation here -- too much to read on a growing pile of books. my advisor handed me Thomas S. Kuhn's the structure of scientific revolutions and The Road since Structure in addition to Karl Raimund Popper's the logic of scientific discovery to go through in ... The Structure of Scientific Revolutions I have never felt so dumb after reading a book.
Also, anything beginning with Harlequin presents... ... Peace
16. A Wrinkle in Time
17. Macbeth
18. The Aeneid
19. The Republic
20. The Origin of Species
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
22. Les Misérables
23. The Oresteia
24. Flowers for Algernon
25. Flatland ... by Ortner, Sherry
4. Naven
5. The Serpent and the Rainbow
6. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
8. Writing Women's Worlds
New Authors
1. The Gift
2. Mystic and Rider
3 ... ... (414 Phonology) is considered a classic text and if memory serves is very easy to read/understand.
Personally I found The Structure of Scientific Revolutions a little disappointing but I think that's because a lot of the ideas that were new and revolutionary have been absorbed so much that ... ... going to read one book in a given category, what should it be? I was inspired by dressel's comment in the TBR thread that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (501 Philosophy & Theory) "changes your world by making lots of things make sense in new ways". That's the kind of book that I want ... Thanks for the recommendation of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions! I really should try to read it sooner than later. I loved The Copernican Revolution when I read it last year, so I have high expectations for Kuhn now.
If you happen to read either the Agricola and the Germania or Seahe ... ... Reading the Maya Glyphs
499 Miscellaneous languages: The Etruscans Begin to Speak
501 Philosophy & theory: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
502 Miscellany: Eurekas and Euphorias
509 Historical, areas, persons treatment: Early Greek Science
512 Algebra & number ... ... - Swedish literature Sophie's World
PZ—Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Le petit prince
Q—Science (general) The structure of scientific revolutions
QA—Mathematics Set theory, logic, and their limitations
RA—Public aspects of medicine Light on Yoga
RJ—Pediatrics De ... ... on
420 English & Old English – Going Nucular
428 Standard English usage – Woe Is I
501 Philosophy & theory – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
510 Mathematics – Innumeracy
511 General principles – Set Theory, Logic, and their Limitations
513 Arithmetic – Flatlan ... Bug to report. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, if not other books is adding up covers incorrectly. http://www.librarything.com/work/1669269
Not sure how 6 Member Uploaded + 5 Amazon covers = see all 16 covers #157 fikustree
I also have Thomas Kuhn very much in mind when trying to think this through. That book (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) is a huge influence on how I look at the world now. I don't think I ever would have posted in #109 or #119 without having once read it.
I would ... ... hippie parents which lead to my current religion- open mindedness. I used to have total belief in science but then I read the structure of scientific revolutions and that opened up my mind on a lot of things. I read a lot of the mind is science folks and I believe in all of it, I just don't ... I was posting on another thread about the structure of scientific revolutions and how it made me question the reality of fact to the point where years later I still think of it often. It made me become a more open minded person because I realized that my personal belief system is similar the the ... I was posting on another thread about the structure of scientific revolutions and how it made me question the reality of fact to the point where years later I still think of it often. It made me become a more open minded person because I realized that my personal belief system is similar the the ... ... want to teach that possibility along with evolution fine. I don't believe in facts because they can change, just read the structure of scientific revolutions. I think there is one item above all else that should be taught to children and that is
Critical Thinking
I even disagree that ... Does truth matter? Well, depends on for whom and for what.
The first book that comes to mind is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn because it looks at how we need an occassional complete re-evaluation of our fundamental assumptions about any topic, and that should ... ... of Science for some perspectives on the subject.
Perhaps you can start a thread on best introductions to PoS, and/or The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
* Full disclosure: I was a student of Kelly's at CMU, and am a partisan. ... scientist, or poet has managed to do so. (And before you start wanting to exempt the scientists, remember Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the 46 strand dna discovery, and Polanyi's account of tacit vs explicit knowledge found in his Gifford lectures Personal Knowle ... ... pages/hour for a typical novel. Light stuff goes much faster. For Harry Potter, maybe 60 to 90 pages an hour. For some like the structure of scientific revolutions maybe 10 pages an hour, or less. I average only about an hour of reading a day through the year. (and that is mostly stolen time ... Matriculating 1985; what I recall:
1. Book of Genesis, I believe the King James Version(?)
2. As I Lay Dying
3. Structure of Scientific Revolutions
4. Republic
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