ABSTRACT

In his mature works, Kuhn abandons the concept of a paradigm and becomes more interested in the analysis of the conceptual structure of scientific theories. These changes are interpreted as resulting from a ‘linguistic turn’ that Kuhn underwent sometimes around the 1980s. Much of the philosophical discussions about Kuhn’s post-‘linguistic turn’ philosophy revolves around his views on taxonomic concepts. Apart from taxonomy, however, the mature Kuhn introduces other concepts, such as conceptual networks and lexicons. This article distinguishes these three concepts and shows that adopting each one of them has different impacts on Kuhn’s model of science. After distinguishing and assessing the concepts of taxonomy, network, and lexicon, it will be argued that the latter not only fits the Kuhnian model of science better, but it also helps capture the wide sense of Kuhn’s early concept of a paradigm.

摘要

库恩在其成熟的著作中放弃了范式的概念，对科学理论的概念结构的分析越来越感兴趣。这些变化被解释为是库恩有时在1980年代左右经历的“语言转向”的结果。关于库恩的后“语言转向”哲学的许多哲学讨论都围绕着他对分类学概念的看法。但是，除了分类法之外，成熟的库恩还引入了其他概念，例如概念网络和词典。本文对这三个概念进行了区分，并表明采用它们中的每一个对库恩的科学模型都有不同的影响。在对分类法，网络和词典的概念进行了区分和评估之后，我们将认为后者不仅更适合库恩式的科学模型，