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12Philosophie und ihr Verhältnis zu den EinzelwissenschaftenIn Marcel Ackeren, Theo Kobusch & Jörn Müller (eds.), Warum Noch Philosophie?: Historische, Systematische Und Gesellschaftliche Positionen, De Gruyter. pp. 127-273. 2011.
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1Why is Modern Science technologically expoitable?Philosophical Analysis [Chinese]. forthcoming.This paper deals with the following questions: What features of modern natural science are responsible for the fact that, of all forms of science, this form is technologically exploitable? The three notions: concept of nature, epistemic ideal, and experiment, suggest the most important components of my answer. I will argue, first, that only the peculiar interplay of the modern concept of nature with an epistemic ideal attuned to it can cast experiment in the specific, highly central role it play…Read more
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439Die Kuhn'sche WendeIn S. Maasen, M. Kaiser, M. Reinhart & B. Sutter (eds.), Handbuch Wissenschaftssoziologie, Springer. pp. 73-84. 2012.
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48RepliesSynthese 196 (3): 907-928. 2019.In this article, I reply to the preceding articles by Naomi Oreskes, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, Brad Wray, Sarah Green, Alexander Bird, and Timothy Lyons. These articles contain a number of objections and suggestions concerning systematicity theory, as developed in my book ystematicity: The Nature of Science.
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2EinleitungIn Christoph Hubig (ed.), Cognitio Humana - Dynamik des Wissens Und der Werte: Xvii. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie Leipzig 23.–27. September 1996, Kongreßband: Vorträge Und Kolloquien, De Gruyter. pp. 395-396. 1997.
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23Irrationality in Scientific Development?Philosophy Study 3 (5). 2013.The paper discusses several wide-spread misunderstandings of Kuhn’s theory of scientific development, most prominently the ascription that he conceives of scientific development as irrational. The core of this ascription is an assessment of incommensurability as implying the lack of any rational possibility of theory comparison. This is supposed to be due to Gestalt switches and a quasi-religious element of conversion in theory change. Accordingly, scientific revolutions cannot be a serious matt…Read more
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118Philosophical Elements in Thomas Kuhn's Historiography of ScienceTheoria 27 (3): 281-292. 2012.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 implies some sort of internalism, some sort of rationality of scientific development, and historical r…Read more
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26Précis zu Systematicity. The Nature of ScienceZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69 (2): 225-229. 2015.
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47Münsteraner Memorandum Heilpraktiker. Die Thesen des „Münsteraner Kreises“ zu einer Neuregelung des HeilpraktikerwesensEthik in der Medizin 29 (4): 334-342. 2017.
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On the varieties of the distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justificationIn Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification, Preprint 211 Do Instituto Max Planck De História Da Ciência. pp. 11--16. 2002.
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World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of ScienceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3): 923-926. 1994.
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8Wissenschaftsentwicklung und Wirklichkeit in der Theorie Thomas S. KuhnsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 37 (6): 508. 1989.
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70Thomas S. KuhnJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 235-256. 1997.
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316Was weiß die Philosophie?In Wenchao Li (ed.), Wissensformen - Vier Versuche, Wehrhan. pp. 61-79. 2017.
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11Philosophical Elements in Thomas Kuhn’s Historiography of ScienceTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 27 (3): 281-292. 2012.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 implies some sort of internalism, some sort of rationality of scientific development, and historical r…Read more
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49More letters by Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kuhn on Proto-StructureStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4): 610-632. 2006.The paper contains two yet unknown letters that Feyerabend wrote to Kuhn in 1960 or 1961 on a draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In these letters, Feyerabend criticises both details of Kuhn's book and its general direction. The letters anticipate many of the arguments that were put forward in the public controversy against Kuhn's position, including some of the (numerous) misunderstandings. Feyerabend's assertions and arguments are very characteristic of his position in the early …Read more
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13Emergenz versus ReduktionIn Ulla Wessels & Georg Meggle (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, De Gruyter. pp. 324-332. 1994.
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121Two letters of Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kühn on a draft of the structure of scientific revolutionsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 26 (3): 353-387. 1995.
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17Theorie antireduktionistischer Argumente: Fallstudie BohrDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (1-6): 194-204. 1991.
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14The present volume aims at giving a discussion ot the problems ot reductionism in contemporary life sciences. It contains six papers which deals with reduction/reductionism in different fields ot biological research. Also, the holistic perspective, 1. e. the systems view, is discussed in some ot the papers. The message ot this discussion Is that - whereas reductionism is indeed an important strategy - the systems approach is needed. It is argued by some ot the authors that organisms are complex …Read more
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183Kuhn's conception of incommensurabilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (3): 481-492. 1990.
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18"Die neuzeitliche Naturerkenntnis zerstört die Natur". Zu Georg Pichts Theorie der modernen NaturwissenschaftenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 51 (1). 1997.Die im Aufsatz vorgetragene Kritik am Leitmotiv von Georg Pichts Vorlesung "Der Begriff der Natur und seine Geschichte" kann wie folgt zusammengefaßt werden:1. Das für die Natur bedrohliche Handeln ist nicht primär als angewandte Naturwissenschaft, sondern als technisches Handeln zu bestimmen.2. Die Zerstörung von Natur ist nicht Ausdruck einer Wesensqualität von Wissenschaft, sondern allenfalls eine Nebenfolge ihrer Anwendung, primär aber eine Nebenfolge des technischen Handelns.3. Wissenschaft…Read more
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453The Interrelations between the Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science in Thomas Kuhn‘s Theory of Scientific DevelopmentBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (4): 487-501. 1992.The paper deals with the interrelations between the philosophy, sociology and historiography of science in Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific development. First, the historiography of science provides the basis for both the philosophy and sociology of science in the sense that the fundamental questions of both disciplines depend on the principles of the form of historiography employed. Second, the fusion of the sociology and philosophy of science, as advocated by Kuhn, is discussed. This fusion …Read more
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286Reconsidering the miracle argument on the supposition of transient underdeterminationSynthese 180 (2). 2011.In this paper, I will show that the Miracle Argument is unsound if one assumes a certain form of transient underdetermination. For this aim, I will first discuss and formalize several variants of underdetermination, especially that of transient underdetermination, by means of measure theory. I will then formalize a popular and persuasive form of the Miracle Argument that is based on "use novelty". I will then proceed to the proof that the miracle argument is unsound by means of a mathematical ex…Read more
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3Anregung und Empfehlung: Aufklärung auf die Bitte von Herrn Professor Brosche hinBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 26 (3): 223-224. 2003.
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282Paul Feyerabend und Thomas KuhnJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 33 (1): 61-83. 2002.The paper discusses some aspects of the relationship between Feyerabend and Kuhn. First, some biographical remarks concerning their connections are made. Second, four characteristics of Feyerabend and Kuhn's concept of incommensurability are discussed. Third, Feyerabend's general criticism of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions is reconstructed. Forth and more specifically, Feyerabend's criticism of Kuhn's evaluation of normal science is critically investigated. Finally, Feyerabend's re-e…Read more