Opening the Door to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: Hempel and Kuhn on Rationality

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 1 (4) (2012)
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Abstract

A reading is offered of Carl Hempel’s and Thomas Kuhn’s positions on, and disagreements about, rationality in science that relates these issues to the debate between W.V. Quine and Rudolf Carnap on the analytic/synthetic distinction.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
The Essential Tension.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1978 - Philosophy of Science 45 (4):649-652.
The theoretician's dilemma: A study in the logic of theory construction.Carl G. Hempel - 1958 - Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2:173-226.
W. V. Quine on logical truth.Rudolf Carnap - 1963 - In Paul Arthur Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap. La Salle, IL: Open Court. pp. 915-921.

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