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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821808803321

Autore

Gattei Stefano

Titolo

Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic turn" and the legacy of logical empiricism : incommensurability, rationality and the search for truth / / Stefano Gattei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-87910-3

1-315-23612-5

1-281-83422-X

9786611834227

0-7546-9300-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy

Disciplina

146.42

501

Soggetti

Logical positivism

Science - History

Science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Two Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science; 2 Kuhn and the "New Philosophy of Science"; 3 Incommensurability; 4 Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn"; 5 The Shadow of Positivism; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the ""new philosophy of science"" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper cri