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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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439Die 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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183Kuhn's conception of incommensurabilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (3): 481-492. 1990.
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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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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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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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317Reconstructing 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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1452Revisiting 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