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2. Kuhnian Lessons for the Social Epistemology of Science

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Politi, Vincenzo, Renn, Jürgen, Series Editor, Patton, Lydia, Series Editor, McLaughlin, Peter, Associate Editor, Divarci, Lindy, Managing Editor, Cohen, Robert S., Founding Editor, Gavroglu, Kostas, Editorial Board Member, Glick, Thomas F., Editorial Board Member, Heilbron, John, Editorial Board Member, Kormos-Buchwald, Diana, Editorial Board Member, Nieto-Galan, Agustí, Editorial Board Member, Ordine, Nuccio, Editorial Board Member, Simões, Ana, Editorial Board Member, Stachel, John J., Editorial Board Member, Zhang, Baichun, Editorial Board Member, and Shan, Yafeng, editor

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2024
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9. Lexicon and scientific change

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Politi, Vincenzo

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This thesis is about Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of collective scientific practice. The question it aims to answer is: How is it possible to describe the collective scientific practice during what Kuhn defines as periods of normal science? In the introductory chapter I discuss Kuhn's model of science as presented in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In Chapter 2, I define Kuhn's notion of normal science as a collective practice carried out within a scientific community in the light of a 'paradigm'. Since the concept of paradigm was abandoned after Structure, the following chapters examine Kuhn's late notions of 'exemplar', 'taxonomy' and 'lexical network'. After discussing the problems with these concepts, at the end of Chapter 5 I reconsider the idea of 'disciplinary matrix' and I suggest an interpretation of Kuhn's notion of 'lexicon' as its linguistic explicitation. In Chapter 6 I show how, if scientific revolutions are changes of disciplinary matrix, the phenomenon of specialization is a special case of scientific revolutions. I conclude that Kuhn's late focus on the linguistic aspects of science is not a retreat from his early interests in scientific practice, because analyzing scientific language means analyzing the most public, accessible and inter-subjective characteristic of the community of scientists.

Published
2015

15. Beyond Structure: New Frontiers of the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn.

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Politi, Vincenzo and Shan, Yafeng

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*PHILOSOPHY of science, *PLACE (Philosophy), *SCIENTIFIC Revolution, *TWENTIETH century, *PHILOSOPHERS
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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28. “Would my life stillbe meaningful?”: Intersubjectivism and changing meaning in life

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Politi, Vincenzo

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Susan Wolf maintains that the meaningfulness of a life arises when someone acts upon the subjective desire of doing something objectively valuable. This amounts to a hybrid view, which contains both subjectivist and objectivist elements. Wolf’s tentative definition of what is objectively valuable amounts to what, in this article, we define as ‘intersubjectivism’. As it will be argued, however, intersubjectivism poses a number of problems, which are exacerbated in contemporary society and which shed a new light on the problem of meaning in life.

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2019
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