A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book
contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book, The
Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific
Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the
central claims of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the
problems that it raised but did not resolve. The Plurality of
Worlds is preceded by two related texts that Kuhn publicly
delivered but never published in English: his paper "Scientific
Knowledge as Historical Product" and his Shearman Memorial
Lectures, "The Presence of Past Science." An introduction by the
editor describes the origins and structure of The Plurality of
Worlds and sheds light on its central philosophical problems.
Kuhn's aims in his last writings are bold. He sets out to develop
an empirically grounded theory of meaning that would allow him to
make sense of both the possibility of historical understanding and
the inevitability of incommensurability between past and present
science. In his view, incommensurability is fully compatible with a
robust notion of the real world that science investigates, the
rationality of scientific change, and the idea that scientific
development is progressive.
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