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Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science Fir Edition

by Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Author), Alex Levine (Translator)
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Few philosophers of science have influenced as many readers as Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet no comprehensive study of his ideas has existed—until now. In this volume, Paul Hoyningen-Huene examines Kuhn's work over four decades, from the days before The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to the present, and puts Kuhn's philosophical development in a historical framework.

Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Hoyningen-Huene does not merely offer another interpretation—he brings Kuhn's work into focus with rigorous philosophical analysis. Through extended discussions with Kuhn and an encyclopedic reading of his work, Hoyningen-Huene looks at the problems and justifications of his claims and determines how his theories might be expanded. Most significantly, he discovers that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be understood only with reference to the historiographic foundation of Kuhn's philosophy.

Discussing the concepts of paradigms, paradigm shifts, normal science, and scientific revolutions, Hoyningen-Huene traces their evolution to Kuhn's experience as a historian of contemporary science. From here, Hoyningen-Huene examines Kuhn's well-known thesis that scientists on opposite sides of a revolutionary divide "work in different worlds," explaining Kuhn's notion of a world-change during a scientific revolution. He even considers Kuhn's most controversial claims—his attack on the distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification and his notion of incommensurability—addressing both criticisms and defenses of these ideas.

Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions both enriches our understanding of Kuhn and provides powerful interpretive tools for bridging Continental and Anglo-American philosophical traditions.
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  5. Publication date
    May 15, 1993
  6. Language
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 1993
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Fir
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 330 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226355519
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226355511
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Paul Hoyningen-Huene is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) and lecturer for philosophy of economics at the Dept. of Economics at the Universität Zürich (Switzerland). He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 1975 before switching to philosophy of science. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, with Professor T.S. Kuhn, from 1984 to 1985, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, from 1987 to 1988.

His main research interests are the dynamics of scientific theory change, especially Kuhn, Feyerabend, and icommensurability; the nature of science; reduction and emergence; the ethics of science; metaethics; the philosophy of logics, of physics, of biology, of history, of psychology, and of economics; and the philosophy of soccer.

Hoyningen-Huene is best known for his books Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Formal Logic: A Philosophical Approach (Pittsburgh University Press, 2004), and Systematicity: The Nature of Science (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible book for the right audience
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    This book is not for everyone. If you have little or no background in philosophy and the philosophy of science, this book is not for you. If you are serious about the philosophy of science and are familiar with the work of Immanuel Kant and Thomas Kuhn, this book is a must read. I found it one of the best advanced philosophy books I have encountered. In fact, it is an amazing book. The author is one of the world's foremost experts in the philosophy of science. Thomas Kuhn invented a novel paradigm for explaining the philosophy of science, which he introduced in his 1962 book "The Structure of Scientific Revolution." Kuhn did author four editions to that work, but never work a follow up book explaining the problems which his paradigm caused. For the causal reader, "paradigm" is the word Kuhn introduced into our language in his 1962 classic. The word most would use to describe it would be concept or theory. For I think about 20 years Kuhn promised a follow up book, and stated over and over that he was working on it. He could never finish it. This book is as close to that unwritten follow up as one can get. The author of this book worked with Thomas Kuhn at MIT, discussed the content and ideas with him, had him review the text, and had Kuhn write the foreword for it. For those not familiar with the history, Kuhn invented his theory while studying for his PhD in physics at Harvard and developed it while teaching philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. At the same time, Paul Feyerabend was also teaching philosophy at Berkeley, and Feyerabend, completely independent of Kuhn, invented almost the same theory. Feyerabend and Kuhn never got along, with Kuhn leaving first for Princeton and then ended up at MIT. I tell this story because the author also consulted with Feyerabend when writing this text. It is truly a remarkable piece of philosophical history. It is quite good but not an easy read. On a technical level, the author integrates Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is both creative and I think well taken. I doubt Kuhn knew that he was a neo-Kantian philosopher of science as well as a historian of science when he wrote "Structure." The author hints in a footnote about the relationship of Kuhn's work to Hegel, but never developed it. It is a remarkable imaginative criticism of Kuhn's work. For anyone serious about learning the philosophy of science, this book is a must read.
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  • Edward Mariyani-Squire
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good account of Kuhn's "SSR"
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2009
    This is an excellent account of the work of Thomas Kuhn - esp. in bringing out the development of his thought on epistemology and ontology as it relates to his philosophy of science. Profitable to read it after The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides).
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent analysis of the difficult details of Kuhn's work.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 1999
    The author shows that he masters the subject with insight and is able to reconstruct either chronologically or by problems, thesis, objections and possible interpretations, the philosophical work of T.S.Kuhn. He choices to present the reconstruction from a caritative point of view, wich allows him to concentrate into the internal problems of Kuhn's theory of science. In Part I he locates Kuhn's work in the context of the Historiography of Science. Part II concentrates in the problem of scientific knowledge and Kuhn's hard and highly misunderstood thesis about "the construction of the world". Part III develops the subject of the dynamic of scientific knowledge and Kuhn's point of view about scientific progress. It is particulary helpfull to have at hand Kuhn's books while reading Hoyningen-Huene's book because he has a gift for suitable quotation.
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