Perspectives on Kuhn Contemporary Approaches to the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn

This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn’s work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other books, this volume picks up the gauntlet to develop, from a contemporary perspective, some points that can be improved in the light of recent findings and conceptualizations in metatheory. Thus, this work pays a visit to the classical Kuhnian landscapes, but rather proposing interpretations, it takes them as the starting point to go further. One hundred years after Kuhn's birth, the editors and authors rekindle the passion and interest that have always surrounded the work of the great Boston philosopher and historian.

Preface.- Chapter 1. Kuhn, Coherentism and Perception (Howard Sankey).- Chapter 2. Sankey on Kuhn and Epistemological Coherentism: a Commentary (Juan V. Mayoral).- Chapter 3. A Defense of Structure in Structure of Scientific Revolutions (K. Brad Wray).- Chapter 4. A Vindication of Structure in Structure of Scientific Revolutions: a Comment to K. Brad Wray (Pablo Melogno).- Chapter 5. Kuhn’s Reconstruction of Structure: The Theoretical Background (Juan V. Mayoral).- Chapter 6. A Role for Cognitive Agents from a Kuhnian point of view: a Comment to Juan Vicente Mayoral (Pío García).- Chapter 7. Incommensurability and Metaincommensurability. Kind change, world change and indirect refutation (Eric Oberheim).- Chapter 8. The Landscape of a Metaphysical Battlefield: a Comment to Eric Oberheim (Leandro Giri).- Chapter 9. The Plausibility of Thomas Kuhn’s Metaphysics (Paul Hoyningen-Huene).- Chapter 10. Seeing, Talking and Behaving... Ways of Inhabiting the World: a Comment to Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Hernán Miguel).- Index.

Leandro Giri is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Argentina. Member of the Group of Philosophy of Science and Complex Systems (Filocomplex). Ph.D. in Epistemology and History of Science from the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina, Chemical Engineer from the National Technical University (UTN-FRBA), Argentina. Visiting researcher at the University of the Republic (Uruguay). Researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Investigations - Argentinian Society of Philosophical Analisys (IIF-SADAF) at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). Translator of a Spanish critical edition of Kuhn’s Thalheimer Lectures (1984), currently part a team devoted to a Spanish critical edition of Kuhn’s Notre Dame Lectures (1980).

Pablo Melogno is a Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of the Republic (UdelaR) in Uruguay, South America. Member of the Group of Social Studies of Science and Technology (GESCyT). Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Master in Contemporary Philosophy, and degree in Psychology, both from the University of the Republic in Uruguay. Visiting researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico), and the universities of Castilla-La Mancha and País Vasco (Spain). Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zaragoza and the University of Oviedo, both in Spain. Editor of a Spanish critical edition of Kuhn’s Thalheimer Lectures (1984), currently part a team devoted to Spanish critical editions of Kuhn’s Lowell Lectures (1951) and Notre Dame Lectures (1980). President of the Latin American Association of Analytical Philosophy (ALFAn), and Member of the History of Philosophy of Science Association (HOPOS), and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Association of Philosophy and History of Science of the Southern Cone (AFHIC).

Hernán Miguel is a Professor of Introduction to Scientific Thinking at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, South America. Doctorate Professor in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Member of the Group of Philosophy of Science and Complex System Modeling (Filocomplex). Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, and degree in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. Visiting researcher at the University of the Republic (UdelaR), Uruguay, and at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ciudad de México. Researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Investigations - Argentinian Society of Philosophical Analisys (IIF-SADAF). Co-editor of the first edition of Kuhn’s Thalheimer Lectures (1984). He was President and is currently Member of the Advisory Committee of the Association of Philosophy and History of Science of the Southern Cone(AFHIC).