Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

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by  William J. Devlin, Alisa Bokulich (eds.)

Boston Studies in the Philosophy
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AlisaBokulich
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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific
Revolutions—50 Years On
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WilliamJ.Devlin AlisaBokulich
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Acknowledgments
It has been an honor to develop this volume as both a contribution to the Boston
Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science series and a commemoration of
ThomasKuhn’swork.WearegratefultoSpringerPressforgivingusthisopportunity
tohelpcelebrateandfurtherexploreTheStructureofScientificRevolutions.Weare
alsogratefultoLucyFleet,oureditoratSpringerPress,forherassistancethroughout
theprocess.Wearedeeplythankfultoourtwelvecontributors,whosecontributions
oforiginalessayshelptoprovidenovelinsightsintotheimpactStructurehashad,
andcontinuestohave,inthefieldsofphilosophy,history,science,andsociology.
Inaddition,BillwouldliketothankhiscolleaguesintheDepartmentofPhilos-
ophyatBridgewaterStateUniversityfortheiracademicsupportandphilosophical
discussionsaboutKuhnthroughoutthedevelopmentofthisvolume.Hewouldalso
liketothankhisfamilyfortheircontinuedsupport:hisparents,RobertandMargaret,
aswellasRob,Katie,RJ,James,andJaniceWilson.Hewouldlastlyliketothank
RichardandAdriHoweyfortheirfriendshipandacademiccounseling.
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Contents
1 Introduction.................................................. 1
WilliamJ.DevlinandAlisaBokulich
2 Kuhn’sStructure:AMomentinModernNaturalism .............. 11
StevenShapin
3 KuhnandtheHistoriographyofScience ......................... 23
AlexanderBird
4 FromTroubled Marriage to Uneasy Colocation:Thomas Kuhn,
EpistemologicalRevolutions,RomanticNarratives,andHistory
andPhilosophyofScience...................................... 39
AlanRichardson
5 ReconsideringtheCarnap-KuhnConnection..................... 51
JonathanY.Tsou
6 TheRationalityofScienceinRelationtoitsHistory............... 71
SherrilynRoush
7 WhatdoScientistsandEngineersDoAllDay?OntheStructureof
ScientificNormalcy............................................ 91
CyrusC.M.Mody
8 FromTheory Choice toTheory Search: The EssentialTension
BetweenExplorationandExploitationinScience ................. 105
RogierDeLangheandPeterRubbens
9 TheEvolvingNotionandRoleofKuhn’sIncommensurabilityThesis 115
JamesA.Marcum
10 WalkingtheLine:KuhnBetweenRealismandRelativism ......... 135
MichelaMassimi
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11 AnAnalysisofTruthinKuhn’sPhilosophicalEnterprise .......... 153
WilliamJ.Devlin
12 Kuhn’sSocialEpistemologyandtheSociologyofScience .......... 167
K.BradWray
13 Kuhn’sDevelopmentBeforeandAfterStructure .................. 185
PaulHoyningen-Huene
Index ............................................................ 197
Contributors
AlexanderBird DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofBristol,Bristol,UK
Alisa Bokulich Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Department of
Philosophy,BostonUniversity,Boston,MA,USA
RogierDeLanghe TillburgCenterforLogicandPhilosophyofScience(TiLPS),
TilburgUniversity,Tilburg,TheNetherlands
William J. Devlin Department of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University,
Bridgewater,MA,USA
Paul Hoyningen-Huene Institute of Philosophy and Center for Philosophy and
EthicsofScience,LeibnizUniversität,Hannover,Germany
JamesA.Marcum DepartmentofPhilosophy,BaylorUniversity,Waco,USA
Michela Massimi School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences,
UniversityofEdinburgh,Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
CyrusC.M.Mody DepartmentofHistory,RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA
AlanRichardson DepartmentofPhilosophy,TheUniversityofBritishColumbia,
Vancouver,BC,Canada
SherrilynRoush DepartmentofPhilosophy,King’sCollegeLondon,London,UK
Peter Rubbens Department of Physics andAstronomy, Ghent University, Ghent,
Belgium
Steven Shapin Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cam-
bridge,MA,USA
Jonathan Y. Tsou Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State
University,Ames,IA,USA
K.BradWray DepartmentofPhilosophy,StateUniversityofNewYork,Oswego,
NY,USA
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