Reasoning through Crisis: Crisis, Incommensurability and Belief
This paper draws on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but it is neither an exposition nor a critique of that book and uses certain concepts from it as a springboard for reflections on the nature of crisis. Kuhn’s key term was paradigm; however, the primary focus of this paper wi...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:rfcb_1069 https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.1069 urn:doi:10.4000/rfcb.1069 en https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1069 2016-10-09T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/k148 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Reasoning through Crisis: Crisis, Incommensurability and Belief Revue française de civilisation britannique CRECIB - Centre de recherche et d'études en civilisation britannique info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4373 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0248-9015 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb Connelly, James crise Kuhn Collingwood tradition raison politique ordinaire crisis Kuhn Collingwood tradition reason normal politics This paper draws on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but it is neither an exposition nor a critique of that book and uses certain concepts from it as a springboard for reflections on the nature of crisis. Kuhn’s key term was paradigm; however, the primary focus of this paper will be on the intertwined concepts of normal and revolutionary science, and one of the concepts central to the latter: crisis. I ask whether crisis necessarily constitutes a break in continuity or practice, together with our understanding of that practice, thereby generating an inability to ‘think through’ crisis (the radical rupture thesis), or whether crisis can be conceived in an evolutionary fashion as a dialectical progression in which tensions and oppositions do not necessarily signify (or result in) a breakdown of the system or our understanding of it (the dialectical thesis). One of the underlying questions to be considered is precisely how far the analogy between natural science and politics is valid. Here my purpose is primarily to explore the issue and to raise questions rather than to provide concrete answers. Cet article prend appui sur l’ouvrage de Thomas Kuhn La structure des révolutions scientifiques. Sans en proposer une présentation ni une critique, il reprend certains des concepts auquel recourt l’auteur pour interroger la nature de la crise. Si, chez Kuhn, le « paradigme » constitue un terme-clé, il s’agira ici en premier lieu d’examiner les concepts, qui se recoupent, de science normale et de science révolutionnaire, et, dans ce dernier cas, celui de crise, qui lui est central. On se demandera si la crise doit se concevoir nécessairement comme rupture d’une continuité et d’une pratique, ainsi que de la manière même dont nous comprenons cette pratique – ce qui, selon la thèse de la rupture radicale, nous rendrait incapables penser une résolution de la crise –, ou bien si elle doit être envisagée en termes d’évolution et dans la perspective d’une progression dialectique : les tensions et les oppositions ne signifieraient ni n’entraîneraient automatiquement la fin du système, pas plus que notre manière de l’appréhender (thèse de la dialectique). Parmi les questions sous-jacentes qui se posent, il conviendra d’examiner dans quelle mesure on peut établir une analogie entre sciences naturelles et politique. On s’efforcera ici avant tout de tenter de poser le problème et de soulever des interrogations plutôt que de fournir des réponses concrètes. |
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This paper draws on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but it is neither an exposition nor a critique of that book and uses certain concepts from it as a springboard for reflections on the nature of crisis. Kuhn’s key term was paradigm; however, the primary focus of this paper will be on the intertwined concepts of normal and revolutionary science, and one of the concepts central to the latter: crisis. I ask whether crisis necessarily constitutes a break in continuity or practice, together with our understanding of that practice, thereby generating an inability to ‘think through’ crisis (the radical rupture thesis), or whether crisis can be conceived in an evolutionary fashion as a dialectical progression in which tensions and oppositions do not necessarily signify (or result in) a breakdown of the system or our understanding of it (the dialectical thesis). One of the underlying questions to be considered is precisely how far the analogy between natural science and politics is valid. Here my purpose is primarily to explore the issue and to raise questions rather than to provide concrete answers. |
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Reasoning through Crisis: Crisis, Incommensurability and Belief |
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