第六周作业

1. A new image of science
2. Normal science[1] [p10]
3. Paradigm[2] [p11]
4. Formation of Kuhn's theory

Science is the constellation of facts, theories and methods

Three major questions in Kuhn's book [1 P8]

The context of discovery [1 p10]

The context of justification [1 p10]

The psychology of perception [1 XI]

B.L. Whorf's speculations about the effect of language on world view

W.V.O.Quine opened the philosophical puzzles of the analytical-synthetic distinction

Ludwik Fleck's monograph Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wisssenschaftlichen Tatsache

Final stage 1958-1959

Pre-paradigm and post-paradigm period

这周我主要看了《the Structures of Scientific Revolution》，主要集中在preface一章，希望能够对Kuhn理论形成的过程有一定的了解。在preface中，Kuhn简明地介绍了他的想法从初步萌芽到逐步成熟，再到遇到困难解决困难，最后写成这这本书的过程。其中还包括了一些机构，特别是Kuhn理论形成的地方Society of Fellows of Harvard University以及center for the advanced studies。此外在preface中还讲述了对他有帮助的理论以及人，还原了他是如何由一个物理学者转变为科学历史学家并且发现了科学进化的结构。在阅读的过程中，我把比较重要的人和机构列了出来以供参考。

除此之外，在上周三的课上，顾老师解决了我的一些困惑。首先是关于学习比喻结构的重要作用，

关键人物

Important persons to demonstrate scientific revolution

1. Aristotle
2. Ptolemy
3. Copernicus
4. Newton
5. Franklin
6. Lavoisier
7. Young

Important at the very beginning of Kuhn's theory

1. Hauksbee[3]
2. Gray
3. Desaguliers
4. Du Fay
5. Nollett
6. Watson

Important in the first stage

1. Alexander Koyre [4]
2. Emile Meyerson [5]
3. Helene Metzger [6]
4. Anneliese Maier [7]

Important in the second stage

1. Jean Piaget [8]
2. B.L. Whorf [9]
3. W.V.O.Quine [10]
4. Ludwik Fleck [11]
5. Francis X. Sutton

Most important ones

1. Charles Morris[12]
2. James B Conant [13]
3. Leonard K. Nash
4. Stanley Cavell [14]
5. Paul k. Feyerabend [15]
6. Ernest Nagel [16]
7. H. Pierre Noyes [17]
8. John L Heilbron

关键技术

Aristotle's physics

Ptolemy's almagest

Newton's principia and opticks

Franklin's electricity

Lavoisier's chemistry

Lyell's geology

Pliny's encyclopedia

A.O. Lovejoy's great chain of being

关键机构和制度

Society of Fellows of Harvard University

Gestalt psychologists

Lowell Institution

Center of Advance studies

Encyclopedia of Unified Science

Harvard University

Cambridge

Berkeley

Columbia

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

1. The Structure of Scientific Revolution. Thomas S. Kuhn. 50th Anniversary Edition. Preface.