1st Edition

Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

Edited By Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis Copyright 2012
260 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The year 2012 marks the 50 th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on... Read more

1. Introduction Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis  Part 1: Origins and Early Reception  2. Kuhn and Logical Positivism: Gaps, Silences, and Tactics of SSR Gürol Irzik  3. From Paradigm to Disciplinary Matrix and Exemplar James A. Marcum  4. Kuhn’s Fundamental Insight – Reflection on the ‘Social Sciences’, as a Pedagogical and Philosophical Tool for Thinking Adequately About the Natural Sciences Rupert Read and Wes Sharrock  Part 2: Key Concepts  5. Kuhn’s Paradigms Vasso Kindi  6. Some Puzzles about Kuhn’s Exemplars Thomas Nickles  7. Revolution as Evolution: The Concept of Evolution in Kuhn’s Philosophy Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen 8. Incommensurability: Revisiting the Chemical Revolution Hasok Chang  Part 3: Implications  9. Scientific Concepts and Conceptual Change Hanne Andersen  10. Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Social Study of Science Alexander Bird  11. The Structure of Philosophical History: Thoughts after Kuhn Alan Richardson

Biography

Vasso Kindi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Greece.

Theodore Arabatzis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Greece.

"This is an important collection of papers that are worthy contributions to our understanding of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy and of Structure in particular." --K. Brad Wray, State University of New York, Oswego for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited is a rich source of information about the key concepts in Kuhn’s work, and about the internal history of its development…" --Finn Collin in Science & Education