{"title":"Ian Hacking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Hacking\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a thought-provoking exploration of the philosophy of science and the history of knowledge. His works challenge readers to reconsider the frameworks through which scientific concepts and classifications are understood and constructed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDelving into themes such as historical ontology and the social construction of scientific ideas, Hacking's books merge philosophical insight with a keen awareness of cultural and historical contexts. 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Instead, Kuhn posits that significant scientific breakthroughs emerge not through gradual developments within the established framework of 'normal science', but through revolutionary shifts in paradigms—those intellectual upheavals that redefine and reshape our existing understanding of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKuhn's revolutionary idea introduced the concept of 'paradigm shifts', which occur when anomalies in scientific data accumulate to the point where the prevailing framework can no longer accommodate them. These shifts do not simply amount to new theories replacing old ones, but rather involve a transformation that alters the fundamental perspective and methodology of science itself. Such paradigm changes disrupt and revise our everyday reality, highlighting the non-linear nature of scientific evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven today, Kuhn’s insights hold remarkable relevance, especially as new scientific fields like biotechnology challenge existing norms, echoing the kinds of shifts he described. The book’s ongoing influence is evident across many scientific and academic disciplines, sparking debate and inspiring subsequent studies in the humanities and social sciences as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis redesigned edition includes a thoughtful introduction by philosopher Ian Hacking, who adeptly contextualises Kuhn’s ideas for modern readers. Hacking elucidates key terms such as 'paradigm' and 'incommensurability', offering clarity and contemporary relevance to Kuhn's original concepts. The introduction is strategically aligned with the book's sections, providing both historical background and insight into its ongoing applicability, making it an invaluable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, the edition features a newly expanded index, enhancing its utility for academic research and ensuring it remains a crucial resource for those eager to understand the dynamics of scientific inquiry and the nature of transformative scientific change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45799077445868,"sku":"9780226458120","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226458120.jpg?v=1728226187"},{"product_id":"historical-ontology-by-ian-hacking-9780674016071","title":"Historical Ontology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within those sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn its lucid and thoroughgoing look at the historical dimension of concepts, the book is at once a systematic formulation of Hacking's approach and its relation to other types of intellectual history, and a valuable contribution to philosophical understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHacking opens the volume with an extended meditation on the philosophical significance of history. The importance of Michel Foucault—for the development of this theme, and for Hacking's own work in intellectual history—emerges in the following chapters, which place Hacking's classic essays on Foucault within the wider context of general reflections on historical methodology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst this background, Hacking then develops ideas about how language, styles of reasoning, and \"psychological\" phenomena figure in the articulation of concepts—and in the very prospect of doing philosophy as historical ontology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000635736300,"sku":"9780674016071","price":63.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26748383482427.jpg?v=1763291976"},{"product_id":"the-social-construction-of-what-by-ian-hacking-9780674004122","title":"The Social Construction of What?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. 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When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. 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