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Dynamics of Reason and the Kantian Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Maarten Van Dyck
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Abstract

I show why Michael Friedman's idea that we should view new constitutive frameworks introduced in paradigm change as members of a convergent series introduces an uncomfortable tension in his views. It cannot be justified on realist grounds, as this would compromise his Kantian perspective, but his own appeal to a Kantian regulative ideal of reason cannot do the job either. I then explain a way to make better sense of the rationality of paradigm change on what I take to be Friedman's own terms.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 76 , Issue 5 , December 2009 , pp. 689 - 700
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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The author wishes to acknowledge comments from Alan Richardson, Wolfgang Lefèvre, Jeroen Van Bouwel, Ed Slowik, and David Stump that helped him better see the main point he was trying to make.

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