{"product_id":"kuhns-legacy-bojana-mladenovic-9780231146685","title":"Kuhn's Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Kuhn's \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms, such as \"paradigm shift,\" \"normal science,\" and \"incommensurability,\" are now used in both academic and public discourse without any reference to Kuhn. However, Kuhn's philosophy is still often misunderstood and underappreciated. In \u003ci\u003eKuhn's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, Bojana Mladenovic offers a novel analysis of Kuhn's central philosophical project, focusing on his writings after \u003ci\u003eStructure\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMladenovic argues that Kuhn's historicism was always coupled with a firm and consistent antirelativism but that it was only in his mature writings that Kuhn began to systematically develop an original account of scientific rationality. She reconstructs this account, arguing that Kuhn sees the rationality of science as a form of collective rationality. At the purely formal level, Kuhn's conception of scientific rationality prohibits obviously irrational beliefs and choices and requires reason-responsiveness as well as the uninterrupted pursuit of inquiry. At the substantive, historicized level, it rests on a distinctly pragmatist mode of justification compatible with a notion of contingent but robust scientific progress. Mladenovic argues that Kuhn's epistemology and his metaphilosophy both represent a creative and fruitful continuation of the tradition of American pragmatism. \u003ci\u003eKuhn's Legacy \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the vitality of Kuhn's philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bojana Mladenovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 023114668X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231146685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Bojana Mladenovic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46962484871423,"sku":"9780231146685","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6aa1d0d-6a51-4da1-be96-13f50bc2bb71.jpg?v=1750651587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kuhns-legacy-bojana-mladenovic-9780231146685","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}