Carnap and Kuhn: On the Relation between the Logic of Science and the History of Science |
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Authors: | Thomas Uebel |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper offers a refutation of J. C. Pinto de Oliveira’s recent critique of revisionist Carnap scholarship as giving undue
weight to two brief letters to Kuhn expressing his interest in the latter’s work. First an argument is provided to show that
Carnap and Kuhn are by no means divided by a radical mismatch of their conceptions of the rationality of science as supposedly
evidenced by their stance towards the distinction of the contexts of discovery and justification. This is followed by an argument
to the effect that the fact that Carnap’s own work concentrated on formal aspects of scientific theories does not licence
the conclusion that he thought historical investigations and concerns irrelevant for what we nowadays would rightly call “philosophy
of science”. |
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