Open AccessKUHN: UM NATURALISTA ACIDENTAL
Author(s) -
Jézio Hernâni Bomfim Gutierre
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
revista eletrônica informação e cognição
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1807-8281
DOI - 10.36311/1807-8281.2006.v5n2.739
Subject(s) - quine , naturalism , reading (process) , philosophy , historicism , epistemology , allegiance , philosophy of science , linguistics , politics , political science , law
Kuhn is universally regarded as one of the most prominent champions of the historical philosophy of science. A standard reading of the classical Structure of Scientific Revolutions makes clear that allegiance to the ‘historicist’ approach. The same reading, for the same reasons, might regard Kuhn, as much as Quine, as a strict naturalist. In the present paper I challenge such a reading and attempt to show some of nuances and complexities that surround a presumed ‘Kuhnian naturalism’.