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Chapter 10 - Kuhn and the Contemporary Realism/Anti-Realism Debates

from Part IV - Kuhn’s Philosophical Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2022

K. Brad Wray
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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I argue that part of Kuhn's legacy to philosophy of science is the problem of theory change. This has had a profound impact on the realism/anti-realism debates since the early 1980s.

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Kuhn's Intellectual Path
Charting <I>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</I>
, pp. 174 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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