Thomas Kuhn’s ‘Linguistic Turn’ and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism: Incommensurability, Rationality and the Search for Truth (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) 1st Edition by Stefano Gattei (PDF)

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Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the “new philosophy of science” in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Kuhn as the central figure of the new philosophy of science, and Popper as a key philosopher of the time who stands outside both traditions. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper crisis of foundationalism that spans the whole of the Western philosophical tradition, ultimately shows what is untenable in Kuhn’s view. Gattei has written a very detailed and fine grained, yet accessible discussion making exceptionally interesting use of archive materials.

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⭐A real gem!

⭐These days, I really have only one question for professional and academic practitioners and philosophers of science: if modern science (or scientism) is the epitome of human rationality, how and why did it lead humanity into the anthropogenic 6th mass extinction?Three centuries of scientism-led industrial revolution and we’ve destroyed the planet and put all life on Earth in dire existential peril … ‘rationality’? WTF?Like all the scientismic propaganda for the past 100 years, this is yet another pontificating apologetic that runs as far and fast as it can away from confronting the scientistic community’s complicity in destroying humankind and the rest of life on Earth and the planet itself. We aren’t even close to ‘home sapiens’ or even ‘homo sentiens.’ We are homo brutus incarnate and we’re now reaping the toxic fruits of EXACTLY the rapacious apex predator insanity we’ve sown. It’s just what happens when ‘science’ is indentured to fascist capitalism.Welcome to 21st century truth and reality.

⭐This stupid book embodies the doctrinal idiocy of modern analytic philosophy of science. The book appears to be essentially Gattei’s PhD thesis (indeed, it consists almost entirely of highly unimaginative, dissertation-style literature review); and, since Gattei is obviously intellectually spineless, the book reveals the doctrinal imprint in its purest form. The book’s stupid thesis is that “the implicit presuppositions and the stated principles of Kuhn’s philosophy are not very different from those of the logical positivists or logical empiricists he was determined to reject” (p. x). The notion that Kuhn was “determined to reject” logical positivism is of course utterly ridiculous. Two assumptions make such nonsense appear sensible to people like Gattei and Alexander Bird (his PhD advisor, who has written on the same topic). Firstly, that logical positivism is the alpha and the omega of philosophy of science, and that everyone must be “determined” to define his opinion in relation to it. Secondly, that the philosophy of science is a pathetic ping-pong game between philosophical isms. Because of these doctrinal assumptions, it never occurs to these people that someone might actually do philosophy of science by thinking about actual science and pursuing the interesting questions that arise, rather than by rummaging through the hottest post-positivist journals in search of some miniscule crevice that no one has exploited yet.

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