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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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438Die 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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EinleitungIn 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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73Der zusammenhang Von wissenschaftsphilosophie, wissenschaftsgeschichte und wissenschaftssoziologie in der theorie Thomas KuhnsJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22 (1): 43-59. 1991.Summary The paper deals with the interrelations among philosophy, sociology, and historiography of science in Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific development. First, historiography of science provides the basis for both 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 sociology and philosophy of science, as advocated by Kuhn, is discussed. This fusion consists …Read more
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6Thomas Kuhn und die Wissenschaftsgeschichte†Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 24 (1): 1-12. 2001.The article discusses Thomas S. Kuhn's impact on the history of science, especially in the United States of America. First, the state of the history of science in the fifties is sketched. Second, Kuhn's particular contribution to the emerging new historiography of science is presented. Third, Kuhn's role in the m-stitutionalization of the history of science in the USA is considered. Finally, some remarks are made on the relation between Kuhn's historiographic work and his book The Structure of S…Read more
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94Systematicity: The Nature of ScienceOxford University Press USA. 2013.In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially everyday knowledge, by being more systematic. "Science" is here understood in the broadest possible sense, encompassing not only the natural sciences but also mathematics, the social sciences, and the humanities. The author develops his thesis in nine dimensions in which it is claimed that science is more system…Read more
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91Context of discovery versus context of justification and Thomas KuhnIn Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification, Springer. pp. 119--131. 2006.
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Paul K. Feyerabend: An ObituaryIn John Preston, Gonzalo Munévar & David Lamb (eds.), The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend, Oup Usa. 2000.
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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