Volume 42 (1987), 1

The author analyzes Kuhn’s theory of science and in part some of the critical remarks of non-Marxist authors on Kuhn’s work „The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“. He focuses on the relation of the normal and the extraordinary science. He does not consider Kuhn’s classification of science to be exact enough and recommends a more subtle typology of scientific… Čítať ďalej

In the paper attention is paid to the forming of conceptual knowledge and its many-sided development in contemporary philosophical theories. First the correlation between the word and concept is elucidated on linguistic and philosophical knowledge and then the concept as a reflection of general and substantial aspects of the subject-matter is specified. Categories… Čítať ďalej

In Kuhn’s conception of the evolution of scientific theories there appears variance between his effort at grasping of the logic of this development and postulating of the irrational — intuitive character of the proces of birth and acceptance of a new paradigm. In addition to criticism of such a view of the turning points in the development of scientific theories a… Čítať ďalej