New Special issue
Beyond Structure: New Frontiers of the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn
New editorial paper by Dr. Vincenzo Politi (Postdoctoral Fellow Beatriu de Pinós at iHC) y Yafeng Shan in the special volume of the journal "International Studies in the Philosophy of Science" that they have co-edited.
The paper has been published on Taylor & Francis online, with the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2023.2264158 and can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02698595.2023.2264158
ABSTRACT
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.