CHANGE OF WORLD VIEW AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM

Abstract

This paper is aiming to analyze the Chapter X of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR), especially the consideration of Revolutions as changes of world view. Instead to deepen in exegetical issues, I’ll try to: a) expound the general aspects of change of paradigm and the change of world view; b) locate the reflections in the realm of the Incommensurability Thesis; c) identify threats that could entail the kuhnian approach to Scientific Realism; finally, d) I’ll outline some ways to elude them.