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217 Revolution as EvolutionIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 134. 2012.
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7Meaning changes: a study of Thomas Kuhn's philosophyVDM Verlag Dr. Müller. 2008.Thomas Kuhn with his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most influential and widely read philosophers of the 20th century. Kuhn's claim that the meanings of scientific terms change is often taken to be refuted by recent advances in the philosophy of language. Meaning Changes challenges this interpretation showing that meaning change in Kuhn has multiple aspects: Semantic, mental and historical. The author describes the traditional view with clarity, but demonstrates th…Read more
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11Pluralism in reasoning: how to legitimate material inferencesSynthese 202 (3): 1-23. 2023.Wilfrid Sellars’s suggestion that there are valid material inferences entails that validity is not limited to formal inferences. Because material inferences are expressed in ordinary language and deal with both conceptual and empirical matters, an interesting prospect unfolds: valid reasoning is irreducibly plural. However, it is not clear what the validity of inferences composed of non-logical and descriptive vocabulary means. I argue that it is better to speak of the legitimacy rather than the…Read more
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35Representationalism and Non-representationalism in HistoriographyJournal of the Philosophy of History 7 (3): 453-479. 2013.This paper examines how Hayden White and specifically Frank Ankersmit have attempted to develop the representationalist account of historiography. It is notable that both reject the copy theory of representation, but nevertheless commit to the idea that historiography produces representations. I argue that it would have been more advantageous to go yet one step further and reject representationalist language altogether on the level of narratives, as this implies that one is re-presenting a given…Read more
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27Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity: The Case of HistoriographyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (5): 331-363. 2019.This article tackles the problem of normativity in naturalism and considers it in the context of the philosophy of historiography. I argue that strong naturalism is inconsistent with genuine normat...
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74Moving Deeper into Rational PragmatismJournal of the Philosophy of History 11 (1): 83-118. 2017.
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26Making sense of conceptual changeHistory and Theory 47 (3): 351-372. 2008.Arthur Lovejoy’s history of unit-ideas and the history of concepts are often criticized for being historically insensitive forms of history-writing. Critics claim that one cannot find invariable ideas or concepts in several contexts or times in history without resorting to some distortion. One popular reaction is to reject the history of ideas and concepts altogether, and take linguistic entities as the main theoretical units. Another reaction is to try to make ideas or concepts context-sensitiv…Read more
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144Kuhn on essentialism and the causal theory of referencePhilosophy of Science 77 (4): 544-564. 2010.The causal theory of reference is often taken to provide a solution to the problems, such as incomparability and referential discontinuity, that the meaning-change thesis raised. I show that Kuhn successfully questioned the causal theory and Putnam's idea that reference is determined via the sameness relation of essences that holds between a sample and other members of a kind in all possible worlds. Putnam's single ‘essential' properties may be necessary but not sufficient to determine membershi…Read more
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57I Am Knowledge. Get Me Out Of Here! On Localism And The Universality Of ScienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (4): 590-601. 2011.
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25Editorial: Too many books to read? Then read thisJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (1): 1-2. 2020.
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7Editorial: Living and Editing in the Online WorldJournal of the Philosophy of History 15 (1): 1-3. 2021.
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30Editorial: Plenitude is the Cost of SuccessJournal of the Philosophy of History 12 (1): 1-3. 2018.
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18An aging literary revolution: Stuck with the paradigmStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 64 67-70. 2017.
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36Alfred I. Tauber. Science and the Quest for Meaning. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+255. $29.96 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1): 157-160. 2013.
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45Closing the door to cloud-cuckoo land: a reply to Šešelja and StraßerStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 40 (3): 328-331. 2009.Šešelja and Straßer’s critique fails to hit its target for two main reasons. First, the argument is not that Kuhn is a rationalist because he is a coherentist. Although Kuhn can be taken as a rationalist because of his commitment to epistemic values, coherence analysis provides a more comprehensive characterisation of cognitive process in scientific change than any of these values alone can offer. Further, we should understand Kuhn as characterising science as the best form of rationality we hav…Read more
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31Rereading KuhnInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23 (2). 2009.This Article does not have an abstract
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5What’s forgotten about The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?Journal of the Philosophy of History 15 (3). 2021.Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a classic, and it is certainly not forgotten. However, an essential aspect about it has been neglected. That is, Kuhn’s Structure is a book in philosophy of history in the sense that Structure attempts gives an account of historical events, focuses on the whole of the history of science and stipulates a structure of the history of science to explain historical events. Kuhn’s book and its contribution to the debates about the progress of sc…Read more
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11Postnarrativist philosophy of historiographyPalgrave-Macmillan. 2015.The narrativist insight -- From analytic philosophy of history to narrativism -- Three tenets of narrativist philosophy of historiography -- Representationalism and non-representationalism -- Reasoning in historiography -- Colligation -- Underdetermination and epistemic values -- From truth to warranted assertion -- The tri-partite theory of justification in historiography -- Historiography between objectivism and subjectivism -- Postnarrativist philosophy of historiography.
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95Kuhn’s Legacy: Theoretical and Philosophical Study of History (review)Topoi 32 (1): 91-99. 2013.This paper considers the legacy of Kuhn and his Structure with regard to the current history and philosophy of science. Kuhn can be seen as a myth breaker, whose contribution is the way he connected historical and philosophical studies of science, questioning the cumulativist image and demanding historical responsibility of the views of science. I build on Kuhn’s legacy and outline a suggestion for theoretical and philosophical study of history (of science), which can be subdivided into three ca…Read more
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421. Marr on Computational-Level Theories Marr on Computational-Level Theories (pp. 477-500)Philosophy of Science 77 (4): 477-500. 2010.According to Marr, a computational-level theory consists of two elements, the what and the why. This article highlights the distinct role of the Why element in the computational analysis of vision. Three theses are advanced: that the Why element plays an explanatory role in computational-level theories, that its goal is to explain why the computed function is appropriate for a given visual task, and that the explanation consists in showing that the functional relations between the representing c…Read more
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18Editorial: Can History be Used to Test Philosophy?Journal of the Philosophy of History 12 (2): 183-190. 2018.
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53Meaning Change in the Context of Thomas S. Kuhn's PhilosophyDissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2006.Thomas S. Kuhn claimed that the meanings of scientific terms change in theory changes or in scientific revolutions. In philosophy, meaning change has been taken as the source of a group of problems, such as untranslatability, incommensurability, and referential variance. For this reason, the majority of analytic philosophers have sought to deny that there can be meaning change by focusing on developing a theory of reference that would guarantee referential stability. A number of philosophers hav…Read more
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14Editorial: Learning Lessons from History – or Not?Journal of the Philosophy of History 13 (2): 139-140. 2019.