Towards a Genealogy of Thomas Kuhn’s Semantics

PABLO MELOGNO; LEANDRO GIRI

Perspectives on Science

MIT Press

Lugar: Boston; Año: 2023 vol. 31 p. 385 - 404

1063-6145

This paper explores Thomas Kuhn’s intellectual history by examining sources that have been understudied so far: the Lowell Lectures of 1951 (The Quest for Physical Theory) and the hitherto unpublished Notre Dame Lectures of 1980. The analysis of these texts aims to reconstruct Kuhn’s development of a semantics that can account for scientific progress. This analysis will show that the alleged “linguistic turn” attributed to the author is actually renewed interest in problems that existed well before publishing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.