Kuhn's Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism

Bojana Mladenović

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Kuhn's Legacy

Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism

Bojana Mladenović

https://doi.org/10.7312/mlad14668

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Bojana Mladenović offers a novel analysis of Thomas Kuhn’s central philosophical project. Kuhn’s Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn’s philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.

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Bojana Mladenović is professor of philosophy at Williams College. She is the editor of Kuhn’s Last Writings (forthcoming), which includes Kuhn’s Shearman Memorial Lectures, "The Presence of Past Science," and his unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development.

Reviews

Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, author of Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolution:
Mladenović’s Kuhn may well be the closest to Kuhn’s Kuhn that we are ever going to get. This book is a deeply impressive, thorough, fair weighing of how to think Kuhn’s philosophy of science. With a rich diet of comparisons, Mladenović takes one through the voluminous literature on Kuhn, setting out a compelling case for his excellence and contemporary relevance.

Arthur Fine, University of Washington:
Kuhn’s Legacy integrates Kuhn’s mature reflections and developments with his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in a clear and persuasive narrative. Bojana Mladenović poses probing interpretive questions about the texts while also examining constraints concerning how best to answer such questions. The results support a pragmatic, communitarian conception of inquiry that she ascribes to Kuhn and, reflexively, applies to investigations of Kuhn, including her own. It is brilliantly done.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. AN OVERVIEW OF KUHN’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
PART I: HISTORY
2. THE ROLE OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN KUHN’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. “MUCKRAKING” IN HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
PART II: RATIONALITY
4. KUHN’S ANTIRELATIVISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. COLLECTIVE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
6. LOOKING BACK: PROGRESS IN SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
PART III: PRAGMATISM
7. KUHN’S PRAGMATIST ROOTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9780231520744