Research Program REVOLUTION: From Hostile Rupture to Peaceful Develompent (Science, Knowledge Management & Artificial Intelligence, Band 28) - Softcover

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What if revolution isn't an event, but a process of cognition?

We're taught to think of revolutions as ruptures — sudden, violent, historical. This book argues the opposite: that revolution, examined closely enough, dissolves into millions of individually checkable micro-revolutions — small acts of hypothesis and re-examination that either succeed quietly or, mishandled, escalate into brute force.

Research Program Revolution builds a rigorous, testable architecture for understanding change of category — in science, in politics, in institutions, and in individual minds. Drawing on epistemology, Peircean abduction, Koselleck's conceptual history, and self-organized criticality from physics, it asks a question most theories of revolution never dare to make precise: not whether a revolution turns violent, but at exactly which point it does.

Rather than offering another grand narrative, this book gives you an operative toolkit: a way to name the moment a category breaks, to state in advance when a theory should stop being applied, and to trace the difference between necessary compression and dogmatic enforcement.

Inside, you will find:

• A framework that decomposes revolution into its smallest checkable unit
• The "STOP condition" — how healthy paradigms build in their own expiration
• Seven historical fracture points, examined case by case
• A honest accounting of what a static book cannot do — and where the living examination continues
• A rare fusion of philosophy of science, history, and systems thinking

This is not a book that tells you revolution is coming. It's a book that teaches you how to see one before it arrives — and how to tell the difference between a category that needs to change and a change that has gone wrong.

For readers of epistemology, philosophy of science, intellectual history, and anyone who has ever wondered where exactly the line runs between reform and rupture.

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