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Rakesh Thampy

Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, Logical Positivism, And The Exact Sciences

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This essay considers the nature of conceptual frameworks in science, and suggests a reconsideration of the role played by philosophy in radical conceptual change. On Kuhn’s view of conceptual conflict, the scientist’s appeal to philosophical principles is an obvious symptom of incommensurability; philosophical preferences are merely “subjective factors” that play a part in the “necessarily circular” arguments that scientists offer for their own conceptual commitments. ..

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