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44Idealist Elements In Thomas Kuhn'S Philosophy Of ScienceHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (October): 393-401. 1989.
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10Wozu Wissenschaftsphilosophie?: Positionen und Fragen zur gegenwärtigen Wissenschaftsphilosophie (edited book)W. De Gruyter. 1988.
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42This 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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2Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions. Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of ScienceTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (2): 374-375. 1994.
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19A Note on the Concept of GameIn Gregor Betz, Dirk Koppelberg, David Lüwenstein & Anna Wehofsits (eds.), Weiter Denken - Über Philosophie, Wissenschaft Und Religion, De Gruyter. pp. 205-210. 2015.
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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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12Emergenz 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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13The 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
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34Niels Bohr's argument for the irreducibility of biology to physicsIn Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse (eds.), Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 231--255. 1994.
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343Theorie antireduktionistischer Argumente: Fallstudie BohrDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (2): 194-204. 1991.
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316Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Chicago Press. 1993.Few philosophers of science have influenced as many readers as Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet no comprehensive study of his ideas has existed--until now. In this volume, Paul Hoyningen-Huene examines Kuhn's work over four decades, from the days before The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to the present, and puts Kuhn's philosophical development in a historical framework. Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's idea…Read more
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1451Revisiting Friedman’s 'On the methodology of positive economics' ('F53')Methodus 10 (2): 146-182. 2021.In this paper, I shall defend two main claims. First, Friedman’s famous paper “On the methodology of positive economics” (“F53”) cannot be properly understood without taking into account the influence of three authors who are neither cited nor mentioned in the paper: Max Weber, Frank Knight, and Karl Popper. I shall trace both their substantive influence on F53 and the historical route by which this influence took place. Once one has understood these ingredients, especially Weber’s ideal types, …Read more
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Kuhn’s Development Before and After StructureIn William J. Devlin & Alisa Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 311. Springer. 2015.