Open AccessKuhn e a racionalidade da escolha científica
Author(s) -
Eros Moreira de Carvalho
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
principia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1808-1525
pISSN - 1414-4247
DOI - 10.5007/1808-1711.2013v17n3p439
Subject(s) - mistake , articulation (sociology) , epistemology , cognition , process (computing) , normal science , philosophy of science , philosophy , sociology , psychology , political science , computer science , law , politics , neuroscience , operating system
In this paper, I try to articulate and clarify the role of the epistemic authority of experts in Kuhn’s explanation for the transition process between rival paradigms in the scientific revolutionary period. If science progresses, that process should contribute to the attainment of the cognitive aim of science, namely, the articulation of paradigms increasingly successful at the resolution of problems. It is hard to see that process as rational and as attaining the cognitive aim of science without the consideration of epistemic authority. The mistake of Kuhn was to emphasize and clarify insufficiently the role of the epistemic authority of experts; his critics failed for ignoring it altogether