Organon F
2020, Pages 1–26
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Do Kuhn’s Cases of the Theory-Change from Newtonian to Einsteinian Physics Support His Incommensurability Thesis?
Kyoung-Eun Yang
DOI: to be assigned
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 the 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.
Conceptual change of mass; Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis; neutral observational basis; scientific revolution; space-time measurement; the theory-change from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics.
Author
Kyoung-Eun Yang
Affiliation
Korea National University of Education
Address
Graduate School, Korea National University of Education, 250 Taeseongtabyeon-ro, Gangnae-myeon, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
Received
28 April 2020
Revised
22 September 2020
Accepted
8 October 2020
Published online
10 January 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Kyoung-Eun Yang. "Do Kuhn’s Cases of the Theory-Change from Newtonian to Einsteinian Physics Support His Incommensurability Thesis?." Organon F 2021, 1–26. https://www.organonf.com/journal/kyoung/
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