Paradigms. Thinking Styles. Research Programs. How Does Science Change?

Contents

Introduction  ………………………………………………… 7

LUCYNA KOSTUCH (Institute of History, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce) Ancient and modern results of the observation of animal behaviour based  on the fox. Between the humanist paradigm and the natural paradigm ….. 9

AGNIESZKA KIJEWSKA (Faculty of Philosophy, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) The history of medieval philosophy and its historiography ……………. 27

BEATA WOJCIECHOWSKA (Institute of History, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce) Blood science. From Galen to William Harvey – transformations  of the paradigm until the end of the seventeenth century …………….. 43

SYLWIA KONARSKA-ZIMNICKA (Institut of History, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce) From astronomy to astrology and back. Thoughts of a medievalist ……… 55

REV. PAWEŁ TAMBOR (Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Philosophy, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) From a static Universe to an expanding Universe: a paradigm shift  or a change in thought style? …………………………………. 71

YVES GASPAR (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) A different universe – attempts to address the crisis of modern theoretical  cosmology ………………………………………………. 91

ADAM ŚWIEŻYŃSKI (Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) From the ideas of spontaneous generation and cosmic origin of life  to the bilinear concept of biogenesis  ……………………………. 101

REV. ROMAN KULIGOWSKI A paradigm shift is not a shift of moral rules or values ………………. 127