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Abandoned scientific realism
- In abandoning the notion that scientists search for truth, Kuhn also abandoned scientific realism, thus challenging a defining characteristic of modern science since the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Aug 13, 2004 · One way of understanding this outcome is to see that Kuhn’s relationship on the one hand to positivism and on the other hand to realism places him in an interesting position. Kuhn’s thesis of the theory-dependence of observation parallels related claims by realists.
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Jun 1, 1998 · Although Kuhn is much more an antirealist than a realist, the earlier and later articulations of realist and antirealist ingredients in his views merit close scrutiny.
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, 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 believed to be an epistemic theory, Kuhn had an important epistemic point to make.
- Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
- 2007
For some commentators The Structure of Scientific Revolutions introduced a realistic humanism into the core of science, while for others the nobility of science was tarnished by Kuhn's introduction of an irrational element into the heart of its greatest achievements.
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn
- 1962
Apr 20, 2015 · The article analyses the reception of Kuhn in IR and suggests that it contributed to overcoming the ‘second debate’ by making science and realism fully compatible. More importantly, Kuhn offered a vision of science in which scientific communities operated on the basis of realist principles.
essays in RSS were written, Kuhn himself had ceased talking about paradigms, preferring instead the more explicitly linguistic notion of a theoretical lexicon. This framework in fact makes it easier to identify Kuhn as a perspectival realist. Perspectival realism can be summarized in two parts.
