(P/B) THE ROAD SINCE STRUCTURE

Παρουσίαση

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, as nearly everyone knows, Thomas Kuhn argued that the history of science is not gradual and cumulative, but rather punctuated by a series of more or less radical "paradigm shifts." What is less well known is that Kuhn's own under-standing of how best to characterize these episodes itself underwent a number of significant shifts. The essays collected in this volume represent several of his later attempts to rethink and extend his own "revolutionary" hypotheses.
We discussed the contents of this volume with Kuhn at some length shortly before he died. Although he declined to specify them in full detail, he had a quite definite idea of what he wanted the volume to be. In making this clear to us, he made several explicit stipulations, reviewed with us the pros and cons in several other cases, and then provided tour general guidelines for us to follow. For those readers interested in how the final choices were made, we will begin by briefly summarizing these guidelines. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Foreword
Jehane R. Kuhn
Editors' Introduction
PART 1: RECONCEIVING SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
1. What Are Scientific Revolutions?
2. Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability
3. Possible Worlds in History of Science
4. The Road since Structure
5. The Trouble with the Historical Philosophy of Science
PART 2: COMMENTS AND REPLIES
6. Reflections on My Critics
7. Theory Change as Structure Change: Comments on the Sneed Formalism
8. Metaphor in Science
9. Rationality and Theory Choice
10. The Natural and the Human Sciences
11. Afterwords
PART 3: A DISCUSSION WITH THOMAS S. KUHN
Publications of Thomas S. Kuhn