RATIONALITY AND WITTGENSTEIN'S RELATIVISM OF THOMAS KUHN
Oksana Ivanovna Tselishcheva
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Akademy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: релятивизм, скептицизм, Кун, Витгенштейн, рациональность, парадигма, форма жизни, skepticism, Kuhn, Wittgenstein, rationality, paradigm, form of life
Abstract
The article considers how the philosophy of late Wittgenstein influenced the concept of the structure of scientific revolutions developed by T. Kuhn. It is shown that Kuhn's concept of paradigm has an analogue in Wittgenstein's concept of language game. Kuhn's relativism in respect to the objectivity of scientific theories is compared with S. Kripke's skeptical interpretation of "Philosophical Investigations" by Wittgenstein. A violent conflict between T. Kuhn and E. Morris reflected in Morris's book "The Ashtray" is presented as a conceptual focus of the discussion. The conclusion is made that Kuhn's reliance on Wittgenstein in issues concerning the nature of rational science was a mistake in view of the latter's complete disinterest in science.
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