To begin, the so-called ‘selectivity of historical judgment’ is discussed. According to it, writing history requires a comparative criterion of historical relevance. This criterion contains philosophical elements. In Kuhn’s case, the criterion directs historical research and presentation away from Whiggish historiography by postulating a hermeneutic reading of historical sources. This postulate...

In this article, I review John Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry in order to show some points coincidence with the work a later author: Thomas S. Kuhn. support view that despite disparities their works sometimes show—and reservations Kuhn himself had about work—there are interesting coincidental help offer common standpoint goes against more traditional views on logic, inquiry and scientific...

It has been almost 50 years since Thomas Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, posited that science does not progress by the steady accumulation of knowledge, but rather by a system of competition among paradigms. They vie for supremacy through greater parsimony, explanatory power, and popularity among the community of scientists (Kuhn, 1962). The current controversy concerning the ...

Farid Esack on Hermeneutic of Liberation from Thomas Kuhn’s Scientific Revolution Perspective This article aims to elaborate Esack's S Kuhn's scientific revolution perspective. The background this study is the liberation society apartheid hegemony in South Africa 1949-1991 period; - beginning engaged practical political movement and now focuses field gave rise new methodical ideas Koran i.e her...

In 1962, Thomas Kuhn, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, published his groundbreaking book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn 1962). On the basis of fifteen years of intensive study of the history of science, he demonstrated that the development of knowledge about the universe in various scientific disciplines is not a process of gradual accumulation o...