{"product_id":"9780226505237","title":"Paradigms and Barriers : How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Paradigms and Barriers Howard Margolis offers an \n\u003cbr\u003einnovative interpretation of Thomas S. Kuhn's landmark idea \n\u003cbr\u003eof \"paradigm shifts,\" applying insights from cognitive \n\u003cbr\u003epsychology to the history and philosophy of science. \n\u003cbr\u003eBuilding upon the arguments in his acclaimed Patterns, \n\u003cbr\u003eThinking, and Cognition, Margolis suggests that the \n\u003cbr\u003ebreaking down of particular habits of mind—of critical \n\u003cbr\u003e\"barriers\"—is key to understanding the processes through \n\u003cbr\u003ewhich one model or concept is supplanted by another. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMargolis focuses on those revolutionary paradigm shifts— \n\u003cbr\u003esuch as the switch from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican \n\u003cbr\u003eworldview—where challenges to entrenched habits of mind \n\u003cbr\u003eare marked by incomprehension or indifference to a new \n\u003cbr\u003eparadigm. Margolis argues that the critical problem for a \n\u003cbr\u003erevolutionary shift in thinking lies in the robustness of the \n\u003cbr\u003ehabits of mind that reject the new ideas, relative to the \n\u003cbr\u003ehabits of mind that accept the new ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMargolis applies his theory to famous cases in the history of \n\u003cbr\u003escience, offering detailed explanations for the transition \n\u003cbr\u003efrom Ptolemaic to cosmological astronomy, the emergence of \n\u003cbr\u003eprobability, the overthrow of phlogiston, and the emergence \n\u003cbr\u003eof the central role of experiment in the seventeenth century. \n\u003cbr\u003eHe in turn uses these historical examples to address larger \n\u003cbr\u003eissues, especially the nature of belief formation and \n\u003cbr\u003econtemporary debates about the nature of science and the \n\u003cbr\u003eevolution of scientific ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoward Margolis is a professor in the Harris Graduate School \n\u003cbr\u003eof Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University \n\u003cbr\u003eof Chicago. He is the author of Selfishness, Altruism, \n\u003cbr\u003eand Rationality and Patterns, Thinking, and \n\u003cbr\u003eCognition, both published by the University of Chicago \n\u003cbr\u003ePress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49689759744248,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":66.58,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780226505237-1.jpg?v=1785366130","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9780226505237","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}