Kuhn'sthe structure of scientific revolutions revisited
Journal for General Philosophy of Science 26 (1):75 - 92 (1995)
| Abstract | The present paper argues that there is an affinity between Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" and Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is maintained, in particular, that Kuhn's notion of paradigm draws on such Wittgensteinian concepts as language games, family resemblance, rules, forms of life. It is also claimed that Kuhn's incommensurability thesis is a sequel of the theory of meaning supplied by Wittgenstein's later philosophy. As such its assessment is not fallacious, since it is not an empirical hypothesis and it does not have the relativistic implications Kuhn's critics repeatedly indicated. Although concepts are indeed relative to a language game or paradigm, interparadigmatic intelligibility is preserved through the standard techniques of translation or praxis. The impossibility of radical translation which is captured by the claim of incommensurability lies with that which cannot be said but only shown | |||||||||
| Keywords | Science Philosophy Paradigm (Theory of knowledge | |||||||||
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| Call number | Q175.K953.K84 2012 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780415808552 0415808553 | |||||||||
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