Carnap and Kuhn: Arch Enemies or Close Allies?
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 46 (3) , 285-307
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/46.3.285
Abstract
We compare Carnap's and Kuhn's views on science. Although there are important differences between them, the similarities are striking. The basis for the latter is a pragmatically oriented semantic conventionalist picture of science, which suggests that the view that post-positivist philosophy of science constitutes a radical revolution which has no interesting affinities with logical positivism must be seriously mistaken.Keywords
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