Ciência e racionalidade em Thomas Kuhn

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adan John Gomes da
• Orientador(a): Alves, Daniel Durante Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia
• Departamento: Metafísica
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciência. Racionalidade. Thomas Kuhn
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Science; Rationality; Thomas Kuhn
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/16517

The work aims to explore the impact that Thomas Kuhn‟s philosophical work had on the philosophy of science, especially on the common idea of scientific rationality. Besides this, it aims to make clear the position of the author about his understanding of what is to be rational in science. In order to achieve this goal we start giving a panoramic view of the philosophical scientific scene of the first half os the twentieth century, to evince the main character of the concept of rationality more accepted at Kuhn‟s time. In a second moment we show how the ideas of this author contrast with that concept, which gives rise to a series of criticisms of irrationalism. Lastly, we show how Kuhn circumvents these accusations by pointing to a new rationality concept, through which we can conciliate his philosophy with a description of the rational development of science