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- Kuhn argued against both the correspondence theory of truth and convergent realism. Although he likely misunderstood the nature of the correspondence theory, which it seems he wrongly believed to be an epistemic theory, Kuhn had an important epistemic point to make.
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Oct 19, 2012 · Kuhn’s challenge to realists, who invoke the truth of theories to explain their success, is two-fold. His paradigm-account of success confronts realists with the problem of theory change, and the historical fact of successful theories later rejected as false.
- Gerald Doppelt
- jdoppelt@ucsd.edu
- 2013
Sep 1, 2009 · Although Kuhn argued that the history of science does not yield support for convergent realism (and for an overall increase of coherence in science), convergent realism is not incompatible with his philosophy because Kuhn’s argument is ultimately empirical.
- Dunja Šešelja, Christian Straßer
- 2009
Aug 13, 2004 · Hence incommensurability is supposed to rule out convergent realism, the view that science shows ever improving approximation to the truth. (Kuhn also thinks, for independent reasons, that the very ideas of matching the truth and similarity to the truth are incoherent (1970a, 206).)
Thomas Kuhn was never a key player in the contemporary realism/antirealism debates, the debates that gained momentum around 1980 or so, with the publication of Bas van Fraassen’s The Scientific Image and Larry Laudan’s “A Confutation of Convergent Realism.” But I argue that Kuhn had a significant influence on these debates.
I spell out Kuhn’s rationale for pursuing the evolutionary approach. He first concluded that the historical record does not support the assumption that science develops teleologically towards the truth, which then led him to outline an evolutionary view of scientific development.
Sep 1, 2007 · Kuhn argued against both the correspondence theory of truth and convergent realism. Although he likely misunderstood the nature of the correspondence theory, which it seems he wrongly...
Thomas Kuhn was never a key player in the contemporary realism/anti-realism debates, the debates that gained momentum around 1980 or so, with the publication of Bas van Fraassen’s Scientific Image and Larry Laudan’s “Confutation of Convergent Realism”.
