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139Systematicity: The nature of sciencePhilosophia 36 (2): 167-180. 2008.This paper addresses the question of what the nature of science is. I will first make a few preliminary historical and systematic remarks. Next, I shall give an answer to the question that has to be qualified, clarified and justified. Finally, I will compare my answer with alternative answers and draw consequences for the demarcation problem.
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166Context of discovery and context of justificationStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 18 (4): 501-515. 1986.
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94Paul K. FeyerabendJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (1): 1-18. 1997.
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Niels Bohrs Argument für die Nichtreduzierbarkeit der Biologie auf die PhysikPhilosophia Naturalis 29 (2): 229-267. 1992.
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Weltbilder in der Politik. Analogien aus der WissenschaftstheorieConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 23 (58): 77-92. 1989.
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6Formal Logic: A Philosophical ApproachUniversity of Pittsburgh Pre. 2004.Many texts on logic are written with a mathematical emphasis, and focus primarily on the development of a formal apparatus and associated techniques. In other, more philosophical texts, the topic is often presented as an indulgent collection of musings on issues for which technical solutions have long since been devised. What has been missing until now is an attempt to unite the motives underlying both approaches. Paul Hoyningen-Huene’s Formal Logic seeks to find a balance between the necessity …Read more
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66Tensions between science and societyAxiomathes 19 (4): 417-424. 2009.What are the “costs” of science besides its expected benefits? Specifically, how “tense” does the relation between science and society become in the light of the ever-increasing pressure of the latter on the former? In this paper I am going to discus the increasing global inequality deriving from phenomena such as the “brain drain” and from the problems relative to the relationship between ethics and science. I will conclude by considering the tension that arises out of the disciplinary structur…Read more
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Recensioni-Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions. Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of ScienceEpistemologia 23 (1): 169-170. 2000.
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117On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist ArgumentsIn Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr & Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism, W. De Gruyter. 1992.
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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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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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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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10Wozu Wissenschaftsphilosophie?: Positionen und Fragen zur gegenwärtigen Wissenschaftsphilosophie (edited book)W. De Gruyter. 1988.
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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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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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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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12Emergenz versus ReduktionIn Ulla Wessels & Georg Meggle (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, De Gruyter. pp. 324-332. 1994.
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17Theorie antireduktionistischer Argumente: Fallstudie BohrDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (1-6): 194-204. 1991.