Discourse Upon Kuhn’s View Of Science

What is science? Is science a process of constantly progressive, reasonable and objective? For this problem, the scientific philosopher previous Kuhn mostly provided a positive answer. As one of the main representative figure of the history of scientific philosophy school, Kuhn proposed a different view on this problem. Kuhn believed that the development of science is the combination of dynamic and static process, and thought that the progress of science was neither rely on evidence of false nor on evidence of truth. Kuhn denide the existence of objective truth, and advocated practicality of science. He thought that a useful paradigm is in progress. Kuhn blended cultural, social and historical factors in the scientific development, and thought that scientific development was both a cause of scientific rationalism and a process blended in manysocial, historical and cultural factors.This paper analyzes Kuhn’s scientific view from three aspects. The first part, mainly describes the historical origin of Kuhn’s scientific view and the theoretical background.The second part, analyzes the main content of Kuhn’s scientific view. Kuhn’s scientific view mainly includes two aspects:the one is the analysis of concept and function of paradigm by kuhn; the other is Kuhn’s illustration of "incommensurability", included three aspects of introduction (the intention of incommensurability, theory of selection of incommensurability,and incommensurability which means untranslatability).The third part, analyzes the influence on the academia by Kuhn’s scientific view and the limitations of Kuhn’s scientific view. The influence of Kuhn’s scientific view mainly included the inheritance and development of pragmatism and of irrationalism by Feyerabend and Laudan in Kuhn scientific view and absorption in Kuhn’s paradigm theory by Lakatos; and the Limitation mainly manifested excessive emphasis on the relativity of scientific knowledge and unduly unrational of scientific revolution.