Is Kuhn’s “world change through revolutions” comprehensible?
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Томас Кун, изменение мира, научные революции, изменение взгляда на мир, непрезентистская историография, гипотезы, становящиеся фактамиAbstract
Kuhn’s talk of “world change through revolutions” has mostly been met with perplexity. What is it really that Kuhn wants to express in this strange way? I will first review what Kuhn exactly says on this topic. Next, I show that the world change talk is at least not inconsistent and has some initial plausibility. Then I will discuss whether “world change through revolutions” should be replaced by “change of world view”. This will show that “world change through revolutions” is motivated by a strictly non-presentist historiographic stance. However, Kuhn’s intended message can also be expressed in a philosophically much less provocative way.
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2023-05-03
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Epistemology and Cognition
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2023. Is Kuhn’s “world change through revolutions” comprehensible?. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 59, 4 (May 2023), 55–72. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202259458.