Thomas Kuhn: From Physics to the History of Science

Thomas Kuhn was a physicist who held some popular conceptions of science, both in terms of its objectivity and its progressive cumulative line, and then, after devoting his attention to the history of science, he found that these conceptions were wrong, "he realized that different views of science, both inductive and falsifiable, could not bear to face historical analysis". The starting point of a universe is the history of science, he argues that scientific philosophy should be based on the history of science, and "one reason to read a universe as a destroyer of logical positivism was that the work of a universe seemed to show how interesting it is to relate philosophical questions about science to questions about the history of science." His 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, shows the outcome of his fifteen-year reflection on the history of science, and Kohn was "the first in the history of science to seek to uncover the unobservable factors that explain why a theory is chosen, and to conceptualize how it is justified". It is one of the most important books in the philosophy of science, and "the most famous book on science written during the 20th century", and was not only discussed by philosophers of science, but by scientists themselves. According to the famous interpretation of his book, "Actual scientific behavior has nothing to do with traditional philosophical theories of rationality and knowledge", Kohn "re-shaping the landscape of the philosophy of science by introducing some considerations of psychology, sociology, as well as history, and taking seriously the idea that science is not a search for truth that represents an accumulation towards the greatest approximation, led to that clear and observable test". These considerations can be summarized in the following points... - Reza Zeidan. More: https://braheen.com/publications/نحو-منهج-وصفي-للعلم-نقد-فلسفات-العلم-المعاصرة/ — Source: Published on Facebook's "Braheen Center" page https://www.facebook.com/braheen.org/posts/pfbid026EmmBYx9VG7GGHjq1c44eLTCaupjebW5nn3CVAVTcDYed8v5ic14AUY37vphyreAl