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The essays in this collection offer a critical examination of the arguments arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

The Kuhnian Image of Science

1. Introduction / 2. Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis: What's the Argument?, Moti Mizrahi / 3. Science as Human Behavior: Kuhn's Explanatory and Sense-Making Projects, Lydia Patton / 4. The Kuhnian Straw Man, Vasso Kindi / 5. There's Glory for You! Redefining Revolutions, Andrew Aberdein / 5. The Biological Metaphors of Scientific Change, Barbara Gabriella Renzi and Giulio Napolitano / 6. What's the Support for Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis?, James Marcum / 7. Heuristic Principles and Incompatibility, Dunja Seselja / 8. The Bright and Dark Sides of Thinking in Kuhnian Terms, Alexandra Argamakova / 9. Does Kuhn's Incommensurability Thesis Reflect Present and Future Science?, Seungbae Park / 10. Scientific Change and Scientific Method at the Level of the Group: A Case for Degrees of Incommensurability?, Darrell Rowbottom / 11. Incomparability and the Arguments for Incommensurability, Howard Sankey / Index