Revised Kuhn

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...

Tracheobronchomegaly (Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome)

Tracheobronchomegaly (Mounier-Kuhn syndrome) is defined as marked cystic tracheobronchial dilatation. Tracheobronchomegaly (TBM) is a rare condition primarily effecting men between the ages of 40 to 50 years. The etiology of TBM is unknown. Pathologically, there is atrophy of the muscular and elastic elements of the trachea and central bronchi. The diagnosis of TBM and the associated pathology ...

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...

Kuhn and Philosophy

LFG 00 Kuhn :

The systematic assumption of faithfulness violations in Optimality Theory implies an innnite space of candidates. Under the methodological principle of trying to explain as much possible through constraint interaction, control over this innnite space should be exerted by the constraints. Assuming the subsumption-based candidate deenition of OT-LFG, the candidate space is indeed suuciently struc...