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Birth
Stephen Edelston Toulmin was born on March 25th, 1922 in London. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Stephen Edelston Toulmin". Encyclopedia Britannica, Invalid Date, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Edelston-Toulmin. Accessed 24 April 2023. -
Published Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry into the Aims of Science
In Foresight and Understanding, he outlines nutshell definitions in science and introduces survival of the fittest in reference to theories. Cooper, Neil. The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), vol. 13, no. 51, 1963, pp. 180–81. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217203. Accessed 25 Apr. 2023. -
Published Human Understanding
In Human Understanding Toulin challenged Khuns and Collingwood with the Evolution of Concepts. In which he makes the arguments about "conceptual diversity" not being considered and instead of science having revolutionary changes Toumlin suggest they are more live evolutional changes that build upon each other. David Bloor. “Rearguard Rationalism.” Isis, vol. 65, no. 2, 1974, pp. 249–53. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/229375. Accessed 25 Apr. 2023. -
Death
Stephen Edelston Toulmin died Dec. 4th 2009 in Los Angeles CA. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Stephen Edelston Toulmin". Encyclopedia Britannica, Invalid Date, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Edelston-Toulmin. Accessed 24 April 2023.