Beyond Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive notion of paradigm shift in terms of the new concept of representational space. In doing so, this book puts forward the first-ever unitary theory that solves the five central problems in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, incommensurability, scientific change and physical necessity.