Linguistique de l’écrit

Revue internationale en libre accès

Collections | Livre | Chapitre

209518

Kuhn's development before and after structure

Paul Hoyningen-Huene

pp. 185-195

Résumé

This chapter deals with Kuhn's development immediately before Structure and during the last two decades of his life. I discuss Kuhn's development from his penultimate draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to its final version. Here, I examine the notable absence of Wittgenstein's influence and the distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification in the penultimate draft. Next, I turn to his unfinished book manuscript entitled The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development. I explore Kuhn's developing theory of kind terms and how this theory becomes valuable in understanding Kuhn's views of incommensurability, taxonomies, lexicons, revolutionary science, and reality.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Devlin William J., Bokulich Alisa (2015) Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions: 50 years on. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 185-195

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13383-6_13

Citation complète:

Hoyningen-Huene Paul, 2015, Kuhn's development before and after structure. In W. J. Devlin & A. Bokulich (eds.) Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions (185-195). Dordrecht, Springer.