Vasso Kindi – författare

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work.This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure’s publication. There has been extensive research on all of the major issues concerning the development of science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a number of topics relevant to Structure’s concerns, such as the nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the Structure’s significance in the canon of philosophy of science.

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work.This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure’s publication. There has been extensive research on all of the major issues concerning the development of science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a number of topics relevant to Structure’s concerns, such as the nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the Structure’s significance in the canon of philosophy of science.

The philosophy of history is not confined to a particular discipline, tradition or area. It draws upon philosophy, science studies and theories of intellectual and cultural history. Moving from one subject to another, Vasso Kindi weaves together a myriad of concepts to tell the sweeping story of the thinkers and ideas responsible for shaping how we think about the past.No other book combines insights from so many fields. Kindi connects theorists Hayden White, Nelson Goodman and Bruno Latour with philosophers, scientists and cultural historians including Friedrich Nietzsche, Jeremy Bentham, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lorraine Daston and Mary Poovey. She offers critiques of the understanding of evidence, criticisms of postmodernism and the handling of whether history is a science. Her approach is structured around the relationship between two divides: what belongs to the world in relation to history and what belongs to language in relation to history. She uses it to highlight the philosophical issues each concept of history raises. Translated into English for the first time, this is a book that tackles age old questions: What are facts and events? Can we have knowledge of the past when it no longer exists? Do historians discover or craft the stories they tell? It is for anyone who wishes to learn how to think philosophically about history.