Kuhnian Image of Science

Moti Mizrahi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Institute of Technology.

• Introduction, Moti Mizrahi / Part I: Questioning the Kuhnian Image of Science / 1. Kuhn’s Incommensurability Thesis: What’s the Argument?, Moti Mizrahi / 2. Modeling Scientific Development: Lessons from Thomas Kuhn, Alexandra Argamakova / 3. Can Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability be an Image of Science? Seungbae Park / 4. The Demise of the Incommensurability Thesis, Howard Sankey / Part II: Defending the Kuhnian Image of Science / 5. The Kuhnian Straw Man, Vasso Kindi / 6. Kuhn, Pedagogy, and Practice: A Local Reading of Structure, Lydia Patton / Part III: Revising the Kuhnian Image of Science / 7. Redefining Revolutions, Andrew Aberdein / 8. Revolution or Evolution in Science? A Role for the Incommensurability Thesis? James A. Marcum / Part IV: Abandoning the Kuhnian Image of Science / 9. The Biological Metaphors of Scientific Change, Barbara Gabriella Renzi and Giulio Napolitano / 10.Beyond Kuhn: Methodological Contextualism and Partial Paradigms, Darrell P. Rowbottom / About the Contributors / Index

This is a stimulating volume containing a number of excellent contributions to the literature on Kuhn's theory of scientific change. The resources and ideas presented in The Kuhnian Image of Science have considerable potential to stimulate valuable new thinking about scientific change. I would highly recommend taking the time needed for reading the entire collection.