id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6bkth25iy5dgbevgw2627ygvoa Dunja Šešelja Kuhn and coherentist epistemology 2009 13 .pdf application/pdf 6354 325 55 Kuhn's view on inter-paradigm theory comparison allows only for (what we shall dub as) "the weak notion of compatible with convergent realism since Kuhn's argument against it is not "ultimately empirical", as Kuukkanen Keywords: Thomas Kuhn; Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen; Coherentist epistemology; Rationality; Theory choice; argues that a coherentist approach to theory evaluation provides the criteria for a rational interThis is a draft version of the paper that has been published in Studies The second relevant feature of Kuhn's views is that scientific practice is essentially puzzlesolving, and that "the choice between two theories turns, therefore, to the question of whether regarding Kuhn's view on the rationality of inter-paradigm theory comparison and convergent notion of rationality Kuukkanen needs to accept when arguing that Kuhn's standpoint can be First of all, Kuhn insisted that the theory comparison is done in view of a set of shared criteria Kuhn, the correspondence theory of truth and coherentist epistemology. ./cache/work_6bkth25iy5dgbevgw2627ygvoa.pdf ./txt/work_6bkth25iy5dgbevgw2627ygvoa.txt