Norwood Russell Hanson
Norwood Russell Hanson | |
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| Born | August 17, 1924 West New York, New Jersey |
| Died | April 18, 1967 (aged 42) Ripley Hill, Cortland County, New York |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Oxford, Cambridge University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Philosophy of science, aeronautics |
| Notable works | Patterns of Discovery (1958), The Concept of the Positron (1963) |
| Notable ideas | Patterns of discovery, distinction between 'seeing as' and 'seeing that' |
Norwood Russell Hanson (August 17, 1924 – April 18, 1967) was an American philosopher of science. Hanson was a pioneer in advancing the argument that observation is theory-laden — that observation language and theory language are deeply interwoven — and that historical and contemporary comprehension are similarly deeply interwoven. His single most central intellectual concern was the comprehension and development of a logic of discovery.