Continuity through revolutions: A frame-based account of conceptual change during scientific revolutions
Continuity through revolutions: A frame-based account of conceptual change during scientific revolutions
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DOI：
10.1086/392820
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发表时间：
2000-09-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Barker, P
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作者：
Chen, X;Barker, P
本文运用认知心理学的方法，考察了科学革命中概念变化的模式。我们表明，科学革命的变化特征，特别是分类的变化，可以发生在一个连续的方式。使用框架模型的概念表示捕捉概念内的结构关系和概念和分类之间的直接联系，我们开发了一个帐户的科学概念的变化，更充分地反映了目前的理解，像哥白尼革命的情节并不总是突然的。当概念由框架表示时，从一种分类法到另一种分类法的转换可以以一种不以危机阶段为先决条件的零碎方式实现，并且新的分类法可以从旧框架中自然产生，而不是从现有的概念系统中单独出现。这种不断变化的认知机制，体现了反常与不变性对科学进步的建设性推动作用。
In this paper we examine the pattern of conceptual change during scientific revolutions by using methods from cognitive psychology. We show that the changes characteristic of scientific revolutions, especially taxonomic changes, can occur in a continuous manner. Using the frame model of concept representation to capture structural relations within concepts and the direct links between concept and taxonomy, we develop an account of conceptual change in science that more adequately reflects the current understanding that episodes like the Copernican revolution are not always abrupt. When concepts are represented by frames, the transformation from one taxonomy to another can be achieved in a piecemeal fashion not preconditioned by a crisis stage, and a new taxonomy can arise naturally out of the old frame instead of emerging separately from the existing conceptual system. This cognitive mechanism of continuous change demonstrates the constructive roles of anomaly and incommensurability in promoting the progress of science.