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Kuhn's development before and after structure

Paul Hoyningen-Huene

pp. 185-195

Abstract

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.

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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

Full citation:

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