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(2015) Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter deals with Kuhn's development immediately before Structure and during the last two decades of his life. I discuss Kuhn's development from his penultimate draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to its final version. Here, I examine the notable absence of Wittgenstein's influence and the distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification in the penultimate draft. Next, I turn to his unfinished book manuscript entitled The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development. I explore Kuhn's developing theory of kind terms and how this theory becomes valuable in understanding Kuhn's views of incommensurability, taxonomies, lexicons, revolutionary science, and reality.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13383-6_13
Full citation:
Hoyningen-Huene, P. (2015)., Kuhn's development before and after structure, in W. J. Devlin & A. Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 185-195.