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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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343Theorie antireduktionistischer Argumente: Fallstudie BohrDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (2): 194-204. 1991.
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1449Revisiting 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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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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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.
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Obituary of Thomas KuhnJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2). 1997.
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236Thomas Kuhn and the chemical revolutionFoundations of Chemistry 10 (2): 101-115. 2008.The paper discusses how well Kuhn’s general theory of scientific revolutions fits the particular case of the chemical revolution. To do so, I first present condensed sketches of both Kuhn’s theory and the chemical revolution. I then discuss the beginning of the chemical revolution and compare it to Kuhn’s specific claims about the roles of anomalies, crisis and extraordinary science in scientific development. I proceed by comparing some features of the chemical revolution as a whole to Kuhn’s ge…Read more
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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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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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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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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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Weltbilder in der Politik. Analogien aus der WissenschaftstheorieConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 23 (58): 77-92. 1989.