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Abstract
The topic of my paper is the realism in Kuhn's philosophy of science. Kuhn himself left it unclear in what his realism consists, but tended to explain the realism in Kantian terms, by postulating the existence of fixed noumena and phenomenal worlds that change across scientific revolutions. I argue against this view by presenting two main objections to it, in favour of the possibility of an ‘Aristotelean’ reading. The backbone of the Aristotelian reading of Kuhn's realism is his acceptance of a common spatial-temporal world of objects.
Published Online: 2010-03-16
Published in Print: 2005-May
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