Kuhnian Image of Science

The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

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