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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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105Kuhn, the correspondence theory of truth and coherentist epistemologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (3): 555-566. 2007.Kuhn argued against both the correspondence theory of truth and convergent realism. Although he likely misunderstood the nature of the correspondence theory, which it seems he wrongly believed to be an epistemic theory, Kuhn had an important epistemic point to make. He maintained that any assessment of correspondence between beliefs and reality is not possible, and therefore, the acceptance of beliefs and the presumption of their truthfulness has to be decided on the basis of other criteria. I w…Read more
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97Towards a Philosophy of the History of Thought?Journal of the Philosophy of History 3 (1): 25-54. 2009.There are a large number of disciplines that are interested in the theoretical aspects of the history of thought. Their perspectives and subjects may vary, but fundamentally they have a common research interest: the history of human thinking and its products. Despite this, they are studied in relative isolation. I argue that having different subjects as specific objects of research, such as political or scientific thinking, is not a valid justification for the separation. I propose the formation…Read more
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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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74Moving Deeper into Rational PragmatismJournal of the Philosophy of History 11 (1): 83-118. 2017.
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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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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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47Lakatosian Rational Reconstruction UpdatedInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (1): 83-102. 2017.I argue in this article that an aspect of Imre Lakatos’s philosophy has been largely ignored in previous literature. The key feature of Lakatos’s philosophy of the historiography of science is its non-representationalism, which enables comparisons of alternative ‘historiographic research programmes’ without implying that the interpretations of history re-present or mirror the past. I discuss some problems of this interpretation and show specifically that Lakatos’s philosophy does not distort the…Read more
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45Historicism and the failure of HPSStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 55 3-11. 2016.
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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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42Autonomy and Objectivity of ScienceInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (3): 309-334. 2012.This article deals with the problematic concepts of the rational and the social, which have been typically seen as dichotomous in the history and philosophy of science literature. I argue that this view is mistaken and that the social can be seen as something that enables rationality in science, and further, that a scientific community as well as an individual can be taken as an epistemic subject. Furthermore, I consider how scientific communities could be seen as freely acting and choosing agen…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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40The missing narrativist turn in the historiography of scienceHistory and Theory 51 (3): 340-363. 2012.ABSTRACTThe narrativist turn of the 1970s and 1980s transformed the discussion of general history. With the rejection of Rankean historical realism, the focus shifted to the historian as a narrator and on narratives as literary products. Oddly, the historiography of science took a turn in the opposite direction at the same time. The social turn in the historiography of science emphasized studying science as a material and practical activity with traceable and documentable traits. This empirizati…Read more
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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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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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31Rereading KuhnInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23 (2). 2009.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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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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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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25Editorial: Too many books to read? Then read thisJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (1): 1-2. 2020.
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24Editorial: What is This Field Called Philosophy of History?Journal of the Philosophy of History 13 (1): 1-2. 2019.
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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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18Editorial: Can History be Used to Test Philosophy?Journal of the Philosophy of History 12 (2): 183-190. 2018.
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18Editorial: The Philosophy of Intellectual History and Conceptual ChangeJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (2): 143-145. 2020.
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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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14Editorial: Learning Lessons from History – or Not?Journal of the Philosophy of History 13 (2): 139-140. 2019.