Juan Manuel Torres (Ed.)
Lisboa: CFCUL, Cadernos de Filosofia das Ciências 8, 2010, 311 pp.
This book is a contribution to the studies on Kuhn's thought and its present influence on philosophy, history of science and science. Among other themes, it contains neglected or forgotten areas such as the influence of Kuhnean doctrine on the dynamics of the change in Biology, the structuralist view of theories and the Friedman's Kantanian ideas. Applications of Kuhn's criteria to the theory of health and information science are also focused in the volume, together with studies concerning the importance of epistemological values for the phenomenon of incommensutability. The relationships between Kuhn's theses and the present controversy realism-antirealism, on one hand, and a revisited Carnap's philosophy, on the other, are other remarkable chapters. Finally, studies regarding the evolution of Kuhn's doctrine, the influence of the New Look school of Psychology on The Structure of Scientific Revolution, the poorly known interaction between Kuhn and Duhem and the problem of a dialogue capable of involving historians and philosophers of science, complete the main contents of this book.
Index
- Kuhn's influence on the Sciences of the Artificial: analysis of the repercussions on information science - António Bereijo
- The double interaction of the incommensurability thesis - Juan Calderón
- Appropriating Kuhn's philosophical legacy - three attemps: logical empiricism, structuralism, and neokantianism - Andoni Ibarra and Thomas Mormann
- Meaning and Incommensurability: Kuhn, Carnap, Quine - Sandra Laugier
- The New Look School of Psychology and its influence on Kuhn's philosophy - Raul Milone
- Retrieving axiological incommensurability - Ana Rosa Pérez Ransaz
- Kuhn, Lakatos and Duhem on the Copernican Revolution: how Kuhn's interpretation prevailed Lakatos' challenge failed and Duhem's vindication is still ignored - Hassan Tahiri
- The Kuhean shift for qualitative theories and the case of the theory of health - Juan Manuel Torres
- Paradigm lost? Scrutinizing the veracity f systems Biology's paradigm shift - Linda Van Speybroeck and Danny De Waele
- How to identify scientific revolutions? - Erik Weber and Dunja Seselja
- Incommensurability without paradigms: the epistemological revolution of Thomas Kuhn - Carlos Gustavo Wolff Neto
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