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 P8

the context of discovery p10

the context of justification p10

the psychology of perception 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

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 XI

Gestalt psychologists

Lowell Institution

Center of Advance studies

Encyclopedia of Unified Science

Harvard University

Cambridge

Berkeley

Columbia

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory