Psychologists' appropriation of language and ideas from Thomas Kuhn's (1962, 1970b) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions reveals deep and contradictory concerns about truth, science, and the progress of the field. The author argues that psychologists, uncomfortably straddling natural and social science traditions, reference Structure for 2 reasons largely overlooked: first, because it presen...

Since the work of Thomas Kuhn, the role of social factors in the scienti®c enterprise has been a major concern in the philosophy and history of science. In particular, conformity e€ects among scientists have been used to question whether science naturally progresses over time. Using neoclassical economic reasoning, this paper develops a formal model of scienti®c theory choice which incorporates...

Science, Thomas Kuhn argued in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), proceeds at two different paces. One is what he called “normal science”, which professionals, the general public, the press and politicians generally understand as “research firmly based upon one or more past achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation fo...

En este trabajo nos proponemos analizar la doble función que cumple el relativismo: por un lado, constituye una crítica a visión fundacionista caracterizó parte importante de filosofía ciencia contemporánea, específicamente Positivismo Lógico y algunos sus herederos. Por otra parte, ofrece interpretación sobre los aspectos sincrónicos diacrónicos ciencia, se presenta como alternativa las princi...

This paper discusses some aspects of the notion of scientific progress based on the reconstruction of two exemplary economic research programmes. These programmes are the Austrian School of Economics and OTHMAR SPANN’S Intuitive Universalism—two programmes that fought for intellectual leadership during the inter-war period in Austria. The philosophical framework used for the discussion is the I...

In a recent paper, Samir Okasha presented an argument that suggests that there is no rational way to choose among scientific theories. This would seriously undermine the view that science is a rational entreprise. In this paper I show how a suitably nuanced view of what scientific rationality requires allows us to avoid Okasha’s conclusion. I go on to argue that making further assumptions about...

Abstract Taking as reference the literary criticism from English-speaking world, this essay attempts to explain correlations between science and secularization shown in Las fuerzas extrañas , a collection of short stories by Argentinian modernista author Leopoldo Lugones. By analyzing intertextual connections Lugones’ book The Secret Doctrine ambitious theosophical treatise authored Helena P. B...