Kuhn and coherentist epistemology

Coherentist Contraction

Modified Epistemology and Evidentalism

  Justification and religious rationality constitutes one of the main issues of religious epistemology and enjoys a special place to day in the philosophy of religion. In response to the justification of religious belief there are various approaches one of which is modified epistemology which is propounded by creation well – known philosophers such as Alvin plantinga, Nicolas walterstorf etc. ...

Genetic Epistemology and Naturalized Epistemology

When I started studying philosophy at the lycée , the very first book that I read happened to be Piaget’s Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie. I hated it. It explained that philosophy can, to some extent, keep its traditional role of searching for wisdom in the practical domain, but that it is no better than poetry when it tries to say things about the nature of the world, and even when it s...

Kuhn and Scientific Practices

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Thomas Kuhn's philosophical work has helped initiate or reinvigorate many of the central themes in the philosophy of science over the past three decades. His claim that appropriate attention to history could decisively transform familiar philosophical of science views was of course prophetic. Kuhn's discussion of meaning change, incommensurability, and the inter...

Gödel, Kuhn, and Feyerabend

Thomas Kuhn [4] has presented a view of the history of science as a succession of “paradigms” which are not completely comparable with each other. Karl Popper [8] has attacked this view as being relativistic and denying that there is objective scientific truth. Popper seems to be saying that in order for science to be objectively true, every two scientific theories must be completely comparable...