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  • 9 - The Puzzle of Promise, aka “Kuhn’s Problem”

  • from Part III - Incommensurability, Progress, and Revolutions
  • Edited by K. Brad Wray, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book:
    Kuhn's <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> at 60
    Published online:
    05 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 165-181

  • Summary

    Kuhn left many readers with the impression that his version of paradigm choice was not a process governed by reason. That impression was correct. This chapter examines the development of Kuhn’s thinking on paradigm choice during and after Structure, focusing on a philosophical challenge here called the “puzzle of promise”: how can paradigm choice be conceived of as rational if it is, as Kuhn claims, made in defiance of the evidence from problem solving? The chapter argues that later developments of Kuhn’s views elaborate a platform for solving this puzzle, but that he himself always clung to the view that paradigm choice is an arational process.