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Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientifi c Revolutions Revisited Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1 Evolution, Rationality and 9 Models, Simulations, and Cognition Representations A Cognitive Science for the Paul Humphreys and Cyrille Imbert Twenty-First Century Edited by António Zilhão 10 Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge 2 Conceptual Systems James Robert Brown Harold I. Brown 11 Thought Experiments in Science, 3 Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy Philosophy, and the Arts of Science Edited by Mélanie Frappier, Edited by Stephan Hartmann, Letitia Meynell Carl Hoefer, and Luc Bovens and James Robert Brown 4 Fictions in Science 12 Kuhn’s The Structure of Philosophical Essays on Modeling Scientifi c Revolutions Revisited and Idealization Edited by Vasso Kindi Edited by Mauricio Suárez and Theodore Arabatzis 5 Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science Rationality without Foundations Stefano Gattei 6 Emergence in Science and Philosophy Edited by Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor 7 Popper’s Critical Rationalism A Philosophical Investigation Darrell Rowbottom 8 Conservative Reductionism Michael Esfeld and Christian Sachse Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientifi c Revolutions Revisited Edited by Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis NEW YORK LONDON First published 2012 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Taylor & Francis The right of Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuhn’s The structure of scientific revolutions revisited / edited by Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis. p. cm. — (Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; 12) Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in Aug. 2008 in Athens, Greece. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. 1. Kuhn, Thomas S. Structure of scientific revolutions— Congresses. 2. Science—Philosophy—Congresses. 3. Paradigm (Theory of knowledge)—Congresses. I. Kindi, Vasso, 1957– II. Arabatzis, Theodore, 1965– Q175.K953K84 2012 501—dc23 2012021603 ISBN13: 978-0-415-80855-2 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-10315-9 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 VASSO KINDI AND THEODORE ARABATZIS PART I Origins and Early Reception 2 Kuhn and Logical Positivism: Gaps, Silences, and Tactics of SSR 15 GÜROL IRZIK 3 From Paradigm to Disciplinary Matrix and Exemplar 41 JAMES A. MARCUM 4 Kuhn’s Fundamental Insight—Refl ection on the “Social Sciences,” as a Pedagogical and Philosophical Tool for Thinking Adequately about the Natural Sciences 64 RUPERT READ AND WES SHARROCK PART II Key Concepts 5 Kuhn’s Paradigms 91 VASSO KINDI 6 Some Puzzles about Kuhn’s Exemplars 112 THOMAS NICKLES vi Contents 7 Revolution as Evolution: The Concept of Evolution in Kuhn’s Philosophy 134 JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN 8 Incommensurability: Revisiting the Chemical Revolution 153 HASOK CHANG PART III Implications 9 Scientifi c Concepts and Conceptual Change 179 HANNE ANDERSEN 10 Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Social Study of Science 205 ALEXANDER BIRD 11 The Structure of Philosophical History: Thoughts after Kuhn 231 ALAN RICHARDSON Contributors 251 Index 255 Figures and Tables FIGURES 9.1 Fragment of a lexicon. 185 9.2 Forbidden lifelines. 192 9.3 How to follow a lifeline. 193 9.4 Interrelation between the taxonomy of decay products produced in induced radioactivity and the taxonomy of chemical elements. 198 TABLES 3.1 Summary of Paradigm Development 59 8.1 The Division of the Problem Field in the Chemical Revolution 162 Acknowledgments We would like to thank the contributors to this volume for trusting us with their work and for their enthusiasm for the project. We are also grateful to all the participants in the international conference in which part of this book was fi rst conceived. The conference on “T. S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientifi c Revolutions: Impact, Relevance and Open Issues” took place in Athens, Greece, in August 2008 and was made possible by the support of the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation and the Eugenides Foundation. We would like to acknowledge the support of the University of Athens and our colleagues, most importantly among them Kostas Gavroglu, Aris- tides Baltas, Aris Koutoungos, and the late Pantelis Nicolacopoulos, whose eff orts, beginning in the 1980s, have led to the creation of an academic community of philosophers and historians of science in Greece. In that process Kuhn’s book was instrumental and contributed signifi cantly to a change of the Greek philosophical and historical landscape, by attracting to the study of philosophy and history of science scholars with a back- ground in the natural sciences, who brought into philosophy some of the rigor found in their home disciplines. Excerpts from Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientifi c Revolutions are reprinted with permission of the University of Chicago Press (© 1962, 1970 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 1962. Second Edition, enlarged, 1970). Last but not least, we would like to express our thanks to our editors, Felisa Salvago-Keyes and Catherine Tung, for their enthusiasm about our project and their unfailing support; to John Rogers for his meticulous editing of the manuscript; to Michael Watters for man- aging the production of the manuscript with effi ciency and care; to Antonia Pavli for preparing the index; and to three anonymous referees for their encouragement, helpful suggestions, and constructive criticism..
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