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Beyond Structure: New Frontiers of the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn
Nou article editorial del Dr. Vincenzo Politi (Becari postdoctoral Beatriu de Pinós de l'iHC) i Yafeng Shan al volum especial del journal "International Studies in the Philosophy of Science" que han coeditat.
L'article ha estat publicat a Taylor & Francis online, amb el DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2023.2264158 i es pot consultar aquí: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02698595.2023.2264158
RESUM
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science of the 20th century, while his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR) is regarded as one of the most influential works in the philosophy ofscience. At the same time, however, his place within philosophy of science remains ambiguous. On the one hand, despite the popularity of SSR, there is no proper ‘Kuhnian school of thought’ in HPS. On the other hand, the interest towards Kuhn does not seem to fade away and the number of publications about his work does not seem to decrease. We suggest that there are at least three different ways to go ‘beyond SSR’: (i) by scrutinising the development of Kuhn’s thought, from his pre- to his post-SSR writings; (ii) by contextualising Kuhn in the philosophical milieu of his time, thus interpreting his view as emerging from the intellectual exchanges he had with contemporary philosophers; (iii) by reinterpreting and developing some of his most known ideas, in ways that perhaps Kuhn himself was not able to contemplate.