Comments on: Kuhn & Copernicus http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Jackson http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/comment-page-1/#comment-7715 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:56:03 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/#comment-7715 Ron Giere I think had it right when he said that Kuhn was too much like a historian for philosophers and too much like a philosopher for historians.

I think you are too strong when you claim that Kuhn’s ideas were “worthless.” I agree that Kuhn’s particular ideas do not “map” onto the history of science and even more strongly agree that physicist Kuhn knew nothing about biology. However we are all beneficiaries of Kuhn exploding formalist models of science. If you think Kuhn doesn’t understand history of science, read Carnap. Kuhn gets a lot of credit for opening up the humanistic study of science to new approaches even if his particular idea didn’t pan out.

]]> By: Cera Lawrence http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/comment-page-1/#comment-7714 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:08:02 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/#comment-7714 My original undergrad thesis was going to be analyzing the Preformation/Epigenesis debate in the late Enlightenment as a possible example of a Kuhnian revolution. Luckily I got bored with it; I think it would have ended up being a nice, neat project that would have lacked any real substance. Basically just a long essay. I think it would have been easy to do as J.S.W. suggests Kuhn did in the link you gave: impose the theory on the history.

]]> By: Thony C. http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/comment-page-1/#comment-7713 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:39:36 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/kuhn-copernicus/#comment-7713 Thanks for the link ThC

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