Five Decades of Structure: A Retrospective View

This paper is an introduction to the special issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. It introduces some main ideas of Structure, as its change in historical perspective for the interpretation of scientific progress, the r...

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Published in:Theoria (Madrid, Spain) Spain), 2012-09, Vol.27 (3(75)), p.261-280
Main Author: Mayoral, Juan V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communities
Empiricism
Epistemology
History of science
Incommensurability of scientific theories
Kuhn
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Monographic Section: Rethinking "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
normal science
paradigms
Philosophy of science
Rational choice theory
Redescriptions
Scientific revolution
scientific revolutions
structure
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Summary:This paper is an introduction to the special issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. It introduces some main ideas of Structure, as its change in historical perspective for the interpretation of scientific progress, the role and nature of scientific communities, the incommensurability concept, or the new-world problem, and summarizes some philosophical reactions. After this introduction, the special issue includes papers by Alexander Bird, Paul Hoyningen-Huene and George Reisch on different aspects of Kuhn's work. Este artículo es una introducción al número monográfico que conmemora el 50° aniversario de la publicación de La estructura de las revoluciones científicas de Thomas Kuhn. En la introducción se presentan algunas de las ideas principales del libro, como su cambio de perspectiva histórica para la interpretación del progreso científico, el papel y naturaleza de las comunidades científicas, el concepto de inconmensurabilidad o el problema del cambio de mundo, y se resumen algunas reacciones filosóficas a las mismas. Tras la introducción, el número monográfico está compuesto por artículos de Alexander Bird, Paul Hoyningen-Huene y George Reisch que versan sobre diversos aspectos de la obra de Kuhn.
ISSN:0495-4548
2171-679X
DOI:10.1387/theoria.6357