Questions tagged [kuhn]
Thomas Kuhn (1922 – 1996) was an American physicist, historian and philosopher of science. His most influential work was his 1962 book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'.
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Can Kuhn's theory outlined in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions be applied to sociology? If not, what are the implications of this for sociology
Can Kuhn's theory outlined in 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' be applied to sociology? If not, what are the implications of this for sociology?
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Thomas Kuhn applied to formal sciences
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn focuses on the natural sciences.
Are there applications to formal sciences in his works or by others?
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Is naturalism falsifiable?
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In philosophy, naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe.[1]
Naturalism is not so much a special ...
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Are there any formal, fully fleshed-out mathematical models that capture the Kuhnian idea of scientific revolutions?
I searched for a while and wasn't able to find any attempts of formal mathematical models. And thus the question.
If you know of any formal mathematical work that is related but not on the exact same ...
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Is AI in a Crisis of Science?
According to Thomas S. Kuhn in his classic work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
...'normal science' presupposes a conceptual and instrumental
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How do the philosophical notions of schemas and paradigms differ?
In analytical philosophy, both schemas and paradigms are powerful conceptual structures for modeling phenomena, and I wonder which features define and differentiate them.
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Did the later Kuhn write that when he said "theory" he meant "disciplinary matrix"/"paradigm"?
In his later writings (from 1969 on), Thomas Kuhn stopped talking about "paradigms" or "disciplinary matrixes" and started talking about "theories" instead. Some Kuhnians ...
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If Newton's Principia / similar does not impose a rigid approach, then is physics rigorous?
I read from the Wikipedia site regarding the concept "paradigm" that:
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy attributes the following
description of the term to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of ...
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Are paradigms still the driving force of scientific revolution?
I read long time ago about Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn's demonstrate that scientific paradigms are the driving force that makes science go on, but more for social reasons than ...
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Why was the quest for an objective universal demarcation criteria deemed untenable after Kuhn?
I know that Kuhn had developed his own demarcation criteria to determine whether something is science or not. But according to my lecturer the quest for an objective, universal demarcation criteria ...
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In which sense does Kuhn acknowledge the importance of metaphors in science?
Kuhn, in Metaphors and Through [1993], claims:
“Metaphors play an essential role in establishing links between
scientific language and the world. Those links are not, however, given
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Does Descartes identify stimulus, perception and interpretation?
Thomas Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolution, refuses the cartesian philosophical paradigm because he separates observational stiumulus from interpretation and from sensation/interpretation ...
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Differences and similarities between Kuhn and Quine about the indeterminacy of translation
About Thomas Kuhn's semantic incommensurability:
Early on Kuhn drew a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (1970a, 202; 1970c, 268). According to the latter, if we are ...
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What hisorical time period does Kuhn's "pre-paradigm state" correspond?
In Thomas Kuhn's analysis of scientific development, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the "pre-paradigm state" is a condition in which all members of the scientific community practice ...
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Is the whole debate Kuhn-Popper contained in "Criticism and Growth of Knowledge"?
In the Preface of I.Lakatos and A.Musgrave's Criticism and Growth of Knowledge, I read that the book is the fourth volume of the Acts of the International Congress of Philosophy of Science (London, ...
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Where dows Kuhn talk about intension of concepts?
Kuhn talks about changement of concepts during scientific revolutions and says it affects both their intension and extension, and that within the new paradigm old terms, concepts, and experiments fall ...
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In which sense Quine denies that the translated expressions do have a meaning?
Early on Kuhn drew a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (1970a, 202; 1970c, 268). According to the latter, if we are translating one language into another, there are ...
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What did Kuhn specifically say about "history for philosophical purposes"?
Kuhn had little formal philosophical training but was nonetheless fully conscious of the significance of his innovation for philosophy, and indeed he called his work ‘history for philosophical ...
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With regard to the methodological incommensurability, does Kuhn talk about astrology?
According to Kuhn's methodological incommensurability, puzzle-solutions from different eras of normal science are evaluated by reference to different paradigm and methods.
This implies that what was ...
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Kuhn: in what sense is the changed part of an old taxonomy redefined in terms of an "unchanged part"?
The problematic nature of translation arises from two assumptions. First, as we have seen, Kuhn assumes that meaning is (locally) holistic. A change in the meaning of one part of the lexical structure ...
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is perceptual / observational incommensurability equivalent to ontological incommensurability?
perceptual/observational—observational evidence cannot provide a common basis for theory comparison, since perceptual experience is theory-dependent
Kuhn expresses or builds on the idea that ...
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What kind of incommensurability does Kuhn claim rules out convergent realism?
A standard conception of the transition from classical to relativistic physics is that although Einstein's theory of relativity supersedes Newton's theory, what we have is an improvement or ...
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Is Kuhn referring to Quine's holism while developing his later Semantic Incommensurability Thesis?
Kuhn's view as expressed in the passage quoted above depends upon meaning holism—the claim that the meanings of terms are interrelated in such a way that changing the meaning of one term results in ...
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Where did Kuhn write his last thoughts about incommensurability?
Kuhn continued to develop his conceptual approach to incommensurability. At the time of his death he had made considerable progress on a book in which he related incommensurability to issues in ...
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What did Kuhn exactly say about the inscrutability of reference?
Early on Kuhn drew a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (1970a, 202; 1970c, 268). According to the latter, if we are translating one language into another, there are ...
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Where does Kuhn talks about the five characteristics for the choice of theory?
Kuhn (1977, 321–2) identifies five characteristics that provide the
shared basis for a choice of theory: 1. accuracy; 2. consistency (both
internal and with other relevant currently accepted ...
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Kuhn's essay "Reflections on my critics" is named [1970b] or [1970c]?
About Thomas Kuhn's essay Reflections on my Critics I found two different refereces:
In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy it's reported as [1970c], see:
1970c, “Reflections on my Critics”, ...
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which books or essays "Kuhn [1981]" is referred to?
I found a quote by Thomas Kuhn and the source reports:
Kuhn [1981]
but I cannot find that year in his bibliography .
By googling "Kuhn [1981]" I found the following:
What are Scientific ...
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When did Kuhn talk about Aristotle's errors?
About the following quote from Thomas Kuhn, talking about the first time he read Aristotle:
"The question I hoped to answer, was how much mechanics Aristotle had known, how much he had left for ...
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Where did Kuhn draw a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation?
About Thomas S. Kuhn, In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy I read:
Early on Kuhn drew a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (1970a, 202; 1970c, 268)
Which is the ...
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Thomas Kuhn's "paradigm" and its 22 different uses
Thomas S. Kuhn, both in his Second Thoughts on Paradigms [1971] and in the Postscript to the second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [1970], refers to someone who found 22 different ...
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Kuhn's incommensurability of scientific theory
Kuhn's view of the development of scientific theory has it that changes in paradigms mean that a scientist cannot compare paradigms with one another to determine which one is objectively better since ...
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Further reading on a unique aspect of scientific paradigms
In the Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn makes an off-hand remark that it seems like, in science, paradigms achieve a near-universal acceptance that rarely happens in non-scientific fields. ...
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Ethical values according to Polanyi
What role do (ethical) values have in science according to Polanyi and Kuhn?
How does Polanyi define tacit knowledge and what view would Popper and Kuhn have on tacit knowledge?
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Popper vs Kuhn, Science and Progression
So I've looked over multiple research papers and books and still can't grasp the idea of what the difference between Popper and Kuhn is based on their view of how science works and progresses?
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How should we choose between different theories according to Rorty, based on Kuhn?
Popper tried to distinguish a scientific framework from a non-scientific framework ( like Marxism or Psychoanalysis, according to him) by suggesting the criterion of falsification.
Kuhn suggested ...
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How is Lakatos's hard core of theoretical assumptions different than Kuhn's paradigm?
Listening to a course on philosophy of science, Lakatos was presented as a middle way between Popper and the positivists strictly rational description of scientific theories and Kuhn's historical/...
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Is Kuhn's approach to the development of science historicist or not?
On one hand, Kuhn approach to the development of science is ahistorical in the sense that he doesn't believe in cumulative scientific progress or in their being any sort of scientific 'geist' that ...
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