The Structure and Criticalness of Post-positivism: Comment on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

In 1962,Thomas Kuhn strongly demonstrated that scientific progress is a revolutionary history of subversion and reconstruction with The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.In methodology,Kuhn criticized traditional positivism but inherited the principles of logical empiricism,and then constructed post-positivism.In epistemology,Kuhn interpreted the thought of Scientific Revolutions on the whole through post-positivist approach.By distinguishing the relevant terms of post-positivism and citing the Scientific Dispute since the London International Symposium on Philosophy of Science in 1965,the study shows that the textual criticism of the Popper School and Historicism has caused the Kuhn paradigm to be subject to textualism,while the interpretation of Marxist style makes post-positivism return to historical practice,and reveals that the value of Kuhn's Scientific Revolution lies in the philosophical construction of a revolutionary framework for people to think about knowledge development and scientific progress.