SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS: KUHN’S PARADIGMS vs. RORTY'S RE-DESCRIPTIONS
Oksana Ivanovna Tselishcheva
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
Keywords: science, progress, paradigm, re-description, Kuhn, Rorty
Abstract
The article compares the views of two leading representatives of modern relativism, T. Kuhn and R. Rorty. It is shown that the difference between the roles of paradigms in the development of natural sciences in Kuhn and re-description in the understanding of man in the context of the humanities in Rorty results in a loss of certainty in the interpretation of relativism. Moreover, it is proved that when explicating the concepts of the development of sciences, this difference leads to paradoxes indicating the inadequacy of relativism.
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