DO KUHN’S CASES OF THE THEORY-CHANGE FROM NEWTONIAN TO EINSTEINIAN PHYSICS SUPPORT HIS INCOMMENSURABILITY THESIS?

• Authors: Yang Kyoung-Eun
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In order to support his revolutionary view on scientific change, Kuhn suggests that there exist two separate aspects of the theory-change from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics that support his incommensurability thesis. For the evidence of his thesis Kuhn offers the conceptual change in the meaning of notion of “mass” in the theory-change. And he claims the absence of any neutral observational basis to evaluate the strengths of the two theories. This essay argues that these two cases fail to support his incommensurability thesis.

Keywords

EN

KUHN; INCOMMENSURABILITY THESIS; SPACE-TIME MEASUREMENT; NEWTONIAN PHYSICS; EINSTEINIAN PHYSICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 458 – 483

Contributors

author

Yang Kyoung-Eun

• Korea National University of Education, 250 Taeseongtabyeonro, Gangnae-myeon, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28208