Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On PDF
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Volume 311 AlisaBokulich DepartmentofPhilosophy BostonUniversity Boston Massachusetts USA RobertS.Cohen BostonUniversity Watertown Massachusetts USA JürgenRenn MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience Berlin Germany KostasGavroglu UniversityofAthens Athens Greece TheseriesBostonStudiesinthePhilosophyandHistoryofSciencewasconceived in the broadest framework of interdisciplinary and international concerns. Natural scientists, mathematicians, social scientists and philosophers have contributed to the series, as have historians and sociologists of science, linguists, psychologists, physicians,andliterarycritics. Theserieshasbeenabletoincludeworksbyauthorsfrommanyothercountries aroundtheworld. The editors believe that the history and philosophy of science should itself be scientific, self-consciously critical, humane as well as rational, sceptical and un- dogmatic while also receptive to discussion of first principles. 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Devlin (cid:129) Alisa Bokulich Editors Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions—50 Years On Editors WilliamJ.Devlin AlisaBokulich DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy BridgewaterStateUniversity BostonUniversity Bridgewater Boston Massachusetts Massachusetts USA USA ISSN0068-0346 ISSN2214-7942(electronic) BostonStudiesinthePhilosophyandHistoryofScience ISBN978-3-319-13382-9 ISBN978-3-319-13383-6(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-13383-6 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015932143 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon © SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Acknowledgments It has been an honor to develop this volume as both a contribution to the Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science series and a commemoration of ThomasKuhn’swork.WearegratefultoSpringerPressforgivingusthisopportunity tohelpcelebrateandfurtherexploreTheStructureofScientificRevolutions.Weare alsogratefultoLucyFleet,oureditoratSpringerPress,forherassistancethroughout theprocess.Wearedeeplythankfultoourtwelvecontributors,whosecontributions oforiginalessayshelptoprovidenovelinsightsintotheimpactStructurehashad, andcontinuestohave,inthefieldsofphilosophy,history,science,andsociology. Inaddition,BillwouldliketothankhiscolleaguesintheDepartmentofPhilos- ophyatBridgewaterStateUniversityfortheiracademicsupportandphilosophical discussionsaboutKuhnthroughoutthedevelopmentofthisvolume.Hewouldalso liketothankhisfamilyfortheircontinuedsupport:hisparents,RobertandMargaret, aswellasRob,Katie,RJ,James,andJaniceWilson.Hewouldlastlyliketothank RichardandAdriHoweyfortheirfriendshipandacademiccounseling. vii Contents 1 Introduction.................................................. 1 WilliamJ.DevlinandAlisaBokulich 2 Kuhn’sStructure:AMomentinModernNaturalism .............. 11 StevenShapin 3 KuhnandtheHistoriographyofScience ......................... 23 AlexanderBird 4 FromTroubled Marriage to Uneasy Colocation:Thomas Kuhn, EpistemologicalRevolutions,RomanticNarratives,andHistory andPhilosophyofScience...................................... 39 AlanRichardson 5 ReconsideringtheCarnap-KuhnConnection..................... 51 JonathanY.Tsou 6 TheRationalityofScienceinRelationtoitsHistory............... 71 SherrilynRoush 7 WhatdoScientistsandEngineersDoAllDay?OntheStructureof ScientificNormalcy............................................ 91 CyrusC.M.Mody 8 FromTheory Choice toTheory Search: The EssentialTension BetweenExplorationandExploitationinScience ................. 105 RogierDeLangheandPeterRubbens 9 TheEvolvingNotionandRoleofKuhn’sIncommensurabilityThesis 115 JamesA.Marcum 10 WalkingtheLine:KuhnBetweenRealismandRelativism ......... 135 MichelaMassimi ix x Contents 11 AnAnalysisofTruthinKuhn’sPhilosophicalEnterprise .......... 153 WilliamJ.Devlin 12 Kuhn’sSocialEpistemologyandtheSociologyofScience .......... 167 K.BradWray 13 Kuhn’sDevelopmentBeforeandAfterStructure .................. 185 PaulHoyningen-Huene Index ............................................................ 197 Contributors AlexanderBird DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofBristol,Bristol,UK Alisa Bokulich Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Department of Philosophy,BostonUniversity,Boston,MA,USA RogierDeLanghe TillburgCenterforLogicandPhilosophyofScience(TiLPS), TilburgUniversity,Tilburg,TheNetherlands William J. Devlin Department of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater,MA,USA Paul Hoyningen-Huene Institute of Philosophy and Center for Philosophy and EthicsofScience,LeibnizUniversität,Hannover,Germany JamesA.Marcum DepartmentofPhilosophy,BaylorUniversity,Waco,USA Michela Massimi School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, UniversityofEdinburgh,Edinburgh,Scotland,UK CyrusC.M.Mody DepartmentofHistory,RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA AlanRichardson DepartmentofPhilosophy,TheUniversityofBritishColumbia, Vancouver,BC,Canada SherrilynRoush DepartmentofPhilosophy,King’sCollegeLondon,London,UK Peter Rubbens Department of Physics andAstronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Steven Shapin Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cam- bridge,MA,USA Jonathan Y. Tsou Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University,Ames,IA,USA K.BradWray DepartmentofPhilosophy,StateUniversityofNewYork,Oswego, NY,USA xi
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