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On Kuhn's Post-Kantianism
Lin Ying1
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School of Humanities,
School of Humanities
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Abstract
In last part of his life, Kuhn claimed that he is a post¬Kantian in many aspects. This paper aims to inquire the post-Kantian thesis of Kuhn from two paths. One is metaphors in science, and the other is Kuhn's theory of concepts. Following Andersen, Barker and Chen , who apply the new results of cognitive psychology (particularly, the frame model of concept representation), I propose a reinterpretation of Kuhn' s latest philosophy of science.
Keywords
post-Kantianism; metaphor in science; representation of concepts; frame model
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