Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism
This paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development. I shall first review the basic features of Kuhn's family resemblance account and compare to work from the cogniti...
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| description | This paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development. I shall first review the basic features of Kuhn's family resemblance account and compare to work from the cognitive sciences. I shall then show how Kuhn's account can be extended to cover the development of new taxonomies in science, and I shall illustrate by a detailed case study that Kuhn himself mentioned only briefly in his own work, namely the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a4c9dee84ed4a54b9a8e647c709edd72022-12-22T00:02:05ZdeuUniversity of TartuStudia Philosophica Estonica1406-00001736-58992012-12-015.2133151Conceptual Development and Dynamic RealismHanne AndersenThis paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development. I shall first review the basic features of Kuhn's family resemblance account and compare to work from the cognitive sciences. I shall then show how Kuhn's account can be extended to cover the development of new taxonomies in science, and I shall illustrate by a detailed case study that Kuhn himself mentioned only briefly in his own work, namely the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity.http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/spe/article/view/107/78Kuhnscientic conceptsfamily resemblanceconceptual changetaxonomiescategorization |
| spellingShingle | Hanne Andersen Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism Studia Philosophica Estonica Kuhn scientic concepts family resemblance conceptual change taxonomies categorization |
| title | Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism |
| title_full | Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism |
| title_fullStr | Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism |
| title_short | Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism |
| title_sort | conceptual development and dynamic realism |
| topic | Kuhn scientic concepts family resemblance conceptual change taxonomies categorization |
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