Autor: Mauro L. Condé

Resumo:

Paulo Pirozelli’s article “Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy of language” makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the philosophy of language that is present in the last period of Kuhn’s work and, indirectly, to the understanding that most of the problems in the philosophy of science and epistemology which are inevitably linguistic problems. Pirozelli demonstrates that when Kuhn encountered serious problems in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – especially concerning the concepts of “scientific revolution” and “incommensurability” –, he realized that the solution to such problems would be in language and, thus, gradually established a linguistic reflection to solve them. Kuhn is a renowned author of history and philosophy of science, but in his later works, he devoted himself intensely to issues of language.

ISSN: 1980-539X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2020.v43esp.26.p373

Texto Completo: https://www.scielo.br/j/trans/a/SKGfDz7Cp83v3GQZvjzWbwq/?format=html&lang=en

Palavras-Chave: Philosophy of Science, Thomas Kuhn, Epistemology