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Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism

Author(s) -

Hanne Andersen

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

studia philosophica estonica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2228-110X

pISSN - 1736-5899

DOI - 10.12697/spe.2012.5.2.09

Subject(s) - categorization , epistemology , development (topology) , work (physics) , cognitive science , cognition , normal science , computer science , realism , sociology , data science , psychology , philosophy , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , neuroscience

This paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development. I shall first review the basic features of Kuhn's family resemblance account and compare to work from the cognitive sciences. I shall then show how Kuhn's account can be extended to cover the development of new taxonomies in science, and I shall illustrate by a detailed case study that Kuhn himself mentioned only briefly in his own work, namely the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity.

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