Interpreting Kuhn - Critical Essays

List of contents

Introduction: The Road Ahead in Kuhn Scholarship K. Brad Wray; Part I. Foundational Issues: 1. The Genealogy of Thomas Kuhn's Metaphysics Paul Hoyningen-Huene; 2. Kuhn's Kantian Dimensions Lydia Patton; 3. A Public Intellectual and a Private Scholar: On Thomas Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Place of History and Philosophy of Science in Postwar America George A. Reisch; 4. Kuhn and Logical Positivism: On the Image of Science and the Image of Philosophy J. C. Pinto de Oliveira; Part II. Three Core Concepts: 5. Mop-Up Work William Goodwin; 6. Kuhn and the Varieties of Incommensurability William J. Devlin; 7. Reassessing the Notion of a Kuhnian Revolution: What Happened in Twentieth-Century Chemistry. A Commentary on Wray's Claim of the Discovery of Atomic Number as a Revolution in Chemistry Eric R. Scerri; Part III. Kuhnian Themes: 8. The Copernican Revolution Since Kuhn Peter Barker; 9. Kuhn, the Duck and the Rabbit ¿ Perception, Theory-Ladenness and Creativity in Science Vasso Kindi; 10. Kuhn on Scientific Discovery as Endogenous Thomas Nickles; 11. Truth, Incoherence and the Evolution of Science Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen; 12. Reassessing Kuhn's Theoretical Monism: Addressing the Pluralists' Challenge K. Brad Wray.

About the author

K. Brad Wray is Associate Professor at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He is author of Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology (Cambridge, 2011) and Resisting Scientific Realism (Cambridge, 2018), and he has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the philosophy of science and social epistemology of science.

Summary

Interpreting Kuhn provides a comprehensive, up-to-date study of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy and legacy. With twelve essays newly written by an international group of scholars, this collection covers a wide range of topics where Kuhn had an influence.

Foreword

Interpreting Kuhn provides a comprehensive, up-to-date study of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy and legacy.

Product details

• Authors: K. Brad (Aarhus Universitet Wray
• Assisted by: K. Brad Wray (Editor), Wray K. Brad (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781108735605
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73560-5
• No. of pages: 283
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge