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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.
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the
most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence
reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms,
such as "paradigm shift," "normal science," and
"incommensurability," are now used in both academic and public
discourse without any reference to Kuhn. However, Kuhn's philosophy
is still often misunderstood and underappreciated. In Kuhn's
Legacy, Bojana Mladenovic offers a novel analysis of Kuhn's central
philosophical project, focusing on his post-Structure writings.
Mladenovic argues that Kuhn's historicism was always coupled with a
firm and consistent antirelativism but only in his mature writings
did he begin to develop a systematic account of scientific
rationality. She reconstructs and develops this account, arguing
that Kuhn sees the rationality of science as collective. At the
purely formal level, Kuhn's conception of scientific rationality
prohibits obviously irrational beliefs and choices and requires
reason-responsiveness as well as the uninterrupted pursuit of
inquiry. At the substantive, historicized level, it rests on a
distinctly pragmatist mode of justification compatible with a
notion of contingent but robust scientific progress. Mladenovic
argues that both Kuhn's epistemology and his metaphilosophy are a
creative and fruitful continuation of the tradition of American
pragmatism. Kuhn's Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn's
philosophical project and its importance for the study of the
philosophy and history of science today.
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