By Deborah A. Redman
Economists and different social scientists during this century have frequently supported financial arguments via concerning positions taken by way of philosophers of technology. this significant new publication appears on the reliability of this tradition and--in the process--provides economists, social scientists, and historians with the mandatory historical past to debate methodological issues with authority. Redman offers a correct, serious, but impartial survey of the fashionable philosophy of technology from the Vienna Circle to the current, focusing quite on logical positivism, sociological reasons of technology (Polanyi, Fleck, Kuhn), the Popper relations, and the background of technology. She then bargains with fiscal technique within the 20th century, a variety of methodological positions, specifically these supported by way of positions from the philosophy of science.
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174-210) of the second edition Kuhn discusses the problems with his usage of the word paradigm, and attempts to meet criticisms of his critics in general. Further modifications of his position appear in Kuhn 1970a, pp. 1-23 (repr. in his 1977b, pp. 266-92); Kuhn 1970b, pp. 231-78; Kuhn 19771, pp. 458-82 (repr. in his 1977b, pp. 293-319); Kuhn 1977i, pp. 320-39. Second, usually when Kuhn uses the term disciplinary matrix (or paradigm), he means a theory or complex of theories: "Elsewhere I use the term 'paradigm' rather than 'theory' to denote what is rejected and replaced during scientific revolutions" (Kuhn, 1970a, p.
In his 1977b, pp. 293-319); Kuhn 1977i, pp. 320-39. Second, usually when Kuhn uses the term disciplinary matrix (or paradigm), he means a theory or complex of theories: "Elsewhere I use the term 'paradigm' rather than 'theory' to denote what is rejected and replaced during scientific revolutions" (Kuhn, 1970a, p. 2n. 1). Finally, Kuhn's change of terminology—to disciplinary matrix and exemplars—in 24 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE fact corresponds quite closely to Fleck's discussion of the Denkkollektiv (the scientific community limited to one particular discipline) and the Denkstil (the scientific material or substance carried by the Denkkollektiv).
As a consequence, he has become what may be called an applied scientist, in contradistinction to what I should call a pure scientist. He is, as Kuhn put it, content to solve 'puzzles'. The choice of this term seems to indicate that Kuhn wishes to stress that it is not a really fundamental problem which the 'normal' scientist is prepared to tackle: it is, rather, a routine problem, a problem of applying what one has learned: Kuhn describes it as a problem in which a dominant theory (which he calls a 'paradigm') is applied.
