The Hermeneutic Meaning In Kuhn's View Of Science

There are abundant hermeneutic implications in Kuhn's view of science,so we can explore his hermeneutic thoughts in his philosophy of science.On the one hand,Kuhn unconsciously used the hermeneutic method in the study of the history of science,which was carried out by Kuhn.Kuhn called the history of science an explanatory cause.On the other hand,the concept of "paradigm" has rich hermeneutic implications,which is reflected in the fact that paradigm is the basis of understanding natural science,and Kuhn's paradigm shift indicates that there is horizon convergence in the field of natural science.The concept of incommensurability creates a dilemma for the view that there is a convergence of horizons in the field of natural science.Kuhn eventually got out of this dilemma by distinguishing between translation and interpretation.The hermeneutic implication of Kuhn's view of science has an important influence on the development of contemporary philosophy of science to hermeneutics and the extension of the scope of hermeneutic texts.The paper consists of four parts.The first part studies Kuhn's unconscious application of hermeneutic methods.This approach to hermeneutics comes from an experience in 1947,when Kuhn read Aristotle's physics.At the same time,this approach was carried out in the subsequent work on the history of science,so that in Kuhn's eyes,the history of science was an interpretive undertaking.The second part of the thesis studies the hermeneutic implications of the concept of "paradigm".This section consists of three sections.The first section studies the basic meaning of the concept of paradigm and points out its basic position in understanding natural science.The second section studies the development of science under paradigm shift and points out that paradigm shift is the convergence of horizon in the field of natural science.The third section discusses the practice of paradigm shift and its hermeneutic implications.The third part studies the concept of incommensurability,translation and interpretation.The first section aims to show that incommensurability as untranslatability brings a temporary dilemma to the view of horizon convergence inthe field of natural science.The second section points out that incommensurability as untranslatability does not mean incomparability,let alone the incommunicability of theories.The fourth part studies the important influence of hermeneutic implications in Kuhn's view of science,which is mainly reflected in two aspects.Firstly,the hermeneutic implication in Kuhn's view of science has influenced the development of contemporary philosophy of science towards hermeneutics.Secondly,the hermeneutic implication of Kuhn's view of science indicates that in the field of natural science,natural science texts also need to be interpreted,which expands the scope of European hermeneutics.