Extending Thomas Kuhn’s genealogy of semantics. A view into the Lowell Lectures and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Thomas Kuhn, semantics, meaning, scientific revolutions, conceptual change, formalismAbstract
In the article “Towards a Genealogy of Thomas Kuhn's Semantics” (2023), Pablo Melogno, along with Leandro Giri, undertakes the task of reconstructing the path followed by Thomas Kuhn in the development of a semantics capable of accounting for scientific change. In particular, the authors examine the connections between the Lowell Lectures of 1951 and the Notre Dame Lectures of 1980, asserting that both respond to the same program of semantic concerns, which supports a continuist reading of Kuhnian thought about semantic issues. The present article seeks to extend this analysis to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), emphasizing the parallels that can be drawn between this work and the Lowell Lectures concerning certain linguistic aspects involved in scientific change through the analysis of the parts concerning this subject matter present in both writings.
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