A virada evolucionária de Kuhn
In the present paper, we intended to demonstrate the reformulation Kuhn has made of the conception of scientific development he advanced in The structure of scientific revolutions in order to reconcile it with his idea of progress that leads to specialization of knowledge. This reformulation sta...
| Autor principal: | DIAS, Elizabeth de Assis |
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| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
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Universidade Federal do Piauí
2022
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http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/14677 |
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In the present paper, we intended to demonstrate the reformulation Kuhn has made of the conception of
scientific development he advanced in The structure of scientific revolutions in order to reconcile it with his idea of
progress that leads to specialization of knowledge. This reformulation started to be outlined in the final chapter of
the referred work when Kuhn drew an analogy between the scientific development and the Darwinian evolution.
However, it only started to gain importance in the writings that followed The structure of scientific revolutions in the
1990s when he deepened the analogy in terms of speciation. Kuhn started then to conceive the development of
science as evolutionary. His attention focuses on a pattern of development by the means of proliferation of
specializations in the same format of the phenomenon of speciation in biological evolution. This new pattern is
illustrated by the metaphor of the “tree of knowledge”. |