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Reviews for World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science

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The average rating for World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.has a rating of 4 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-10 00:00:00
2009was given a rating of 4 stars Spiridione Mifsud
Esta introducción a Russell es biográfica: sigue el viaje que hizo BR del idealismo pitagórico-platónico más extremo y racionalista, hacia el escepticismo empirista más árido, algo que el autor atribuye a la influencia del mesías nominailsta de mirada extraviada, Ludwig Wittgenstein, algo que me parece un poco exagerado y cruel con el pobre Bertrand. También explica que ese viaje en el que BR perdía una convicción por cada década que pasaba lo encontró desvalido e inerme ante la demolición platónica que aplicó a su edificio lógico otro austríaco, Kurt Gôdel. A veces uno lo puede leer como una bildungsroman al revés, en la que el héroe cada vez cree menos en sí mismo. El gran límite de este libro es que no se molesta en explicar qué es lo que BR escibió en su Principia Mathematica, al que considera uno de los libros más inentendibles de la historia del pensamiento. Quizás sea cierto, pero no me dejó claro el por qué.
Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-20 00:00:00
2009was given a rating of 4 stars Gerald Fogerty
This is a tiny little book I found in a second hand shop for a few pence, and as I quite like Bertrand Russel just bought it on a whim. You could really finish this over a cup of coffee, so it would be easy to go on about what's not in it. But it does capture a certain spirit. For a mathematician, I tend to think of him as essentially an ethical philosopher. In that he had an almost desperate faith in truth and beauty. This little book gives a real sense of his struggles with a massive body of work that never achieved what he wanted. It does just cover the big issues of his philosophy, without touching on his politics or private life at all. If this is something you might want to get into, this is as good a place to start as any.


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