Video Colloquium: Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge: the Case of the Relativity Revolution

by Prof. Jürgen Renn (MPIWG Berlin)

Tuesday 20 Apr 2021, 16:45 → 17:45 Europe/Berlin

Zoom (DESY, Hamburg)

What are Scientific Revolutions and how are they accomplished? The talk focuses on the long history of General Relativity in the 20th century as a case study and argues that Scientific Revolutions are not sudden paradigm shifts but protracted processes that may strech over several generations. Older theories are not simply discarded but serve, in the course of their elaboration, as scaffoldings for the emergence of a new system of knowledge. The talk emphasizes the role of borderline problems between different conceptual systems as triggers driving structural changes of systems of knowledge.

 

This is a VIDEO COLLOQUIUM!

Connection details at https://desy.zoom.us/j/99616528733

Meeting ID: 996 1652 8733
Meeting Password: 733220

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