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9Emergenz versus ReduktionIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 324-332. 1994.
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225Are There Good Arguments Against Scientific Realism?In Antonio Piccolomini D’Aragona, Martin Carrier, Roger Deulofeu, Axel Gelfert, Jens Harbecke, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Lara Huber, Peter Hucklenbroich, Ludger Jansen, Elizaveta Kostrova, Keizo Matsubara, Anne Sophie Meincke, Andrea Reichenberger, Kian Salimkhani & Javier Suárez (eds.), Philosophy of Science: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, Springer Verlag. pp. 3-22. 2018.I will first discuss a peculiarity of the realism-antirealism debate. Some authors defending antirealist positions in a philosophical discussion seem to be inconsistent with what they do when treating scientific subjects. In the latter situation, they behave as realists. This tension can be dissolved by distinguishing different discourses belonging to different levels of philosophical radicality. Depending on the respective level, certain presuppositions are either granted or questioned. I will …Read more
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14Philosophie 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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474Die Kuhn'sche WendeIn S. Maasen, M. Kaiser, M. Reinhart & B. Sutter (eds.), Handbuch Wissenschaftssoziologie, Springer. pp. 73-84. 2012.
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49RepliesSynthese 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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24Irrationality 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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48Philosophical 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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28Précis zu Systematicity. The Nature of ScienceZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69 (2): 225-229. 2015.
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49Münsteraner 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: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction, Springer. pp. 11--16. 2006.
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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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40Thomas S. KuhnJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 235-256. 1997.
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329Was weiß die Philosophie?In Li Wenchao (ed.), Wissensformen - Vier Versuche, Wehrhan. pp. 61-79. 2017.
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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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128On 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