![]() ![]() In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn famously argues that science Scientific, not philosophical theory of science (Section V). Leads his theory of science to be really useful as a social Statements (Section IV), and suggest against his intentions that this Incommensurable paradigms depends on conscious, not self-conscious Of this view, namely that in order to be meaningful, Kuhn’s theory, even by Kuhn’s own lights, ought to be interpreted in a soft sense as having metaphorical meaning, rather than in a hard sense as having literal meaning (Section III). Paradigms is unintelligible (Section II). Paradigms (Section I), I show that the idea of incommensurable After reviewing Kuhn’s idea of incommensurable Upshots of this for the philosophy of science. Incommensurable paradigms is unintelligible, and to sketch the My interest in this article will be to suggest the idea of Oxygen, and Ptolemy’s system to Copernicus’s system of planetaryĪstronomy. Theory of relativity, Priestley’s dephlogisticated air to Lavoisier’s Kuhn shows theĭramatic character of paradigm shifts in pointing to the historicalĬases of scientific revolution: from Newtonian mechanics to Einstein’s Proposes that science proceeds in a series of paradigm shifts withĮach new paradigm incommensurable to the previous. The modern premise of science as cumulative progress, and instead Kuhn presentsĪ post-modern, antifoundationalist philosophy of science that rejects In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Language adopted by the scientific community not for good reasons butīy a non-rational kind of religious conversion to a new world that isĭifferent than, and discontinuous with, the one represented by the Radical alteration of the matrix of measurements, observations, and Metaphysical assumptions that are made prior to puzzle-solving whichĬonstitute the disciplinary matrix of normal science.Ĭount two paradigms ‘incommensurable’ when the new paradigm is a In the discipline during a period of normal science,Īnd in a broad sense, (2) the key theories, instruments, values, and Its assumptions that set the template for solving puzzles that arise In a narrow sense, (1) the examples a discipline uses to articulate ![]() Kuhn distinguishes two meanings for ‘paradigm’: ![]()
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