Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

Series | Buch | Kapitel

209515

Walking the line

Kuhn between realism and relativism

Michela Massimi

pp. 135-152

Abstrakt

In this chapter, I evaluate the thorny issue as to whether Thomas Kuhn's view supports a form of realism or relativism. I consider two prominent realist readings of Kuhn, offered respectively by Hoyningen-Huene and Giere, and some of the challenges each of them faces. I offer then a reading of Kuhn's contentious claim about "working in a new world" in terms of what I call naturalized Kantian kinds. I show how this reading can escape some of the challenges and deliver a mild form of realism.

Publication details

Published in:

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

Seiten: 135-152


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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13383-6_10

Referenz:

Massimi Michela (2015) „Walking the line: Kuhn between realism and relativism“, In: W. J. Devlin & A. Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions, Dordrecht, Springer, 135–152.