%0 Journal Article
%T Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism
%A Hanne Andersen
%J Studia Philosophica Estonica
%D 2012
%I University of Tartu
%X This paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development. I shall first review the basic features of Kuhn's family resemblance account and compare to work from the cognitive sciences. I shall then show how Kuhn's account can be extended to cover the development of new taxonomies in science, and I shall illustrate by a detailed case study that Kuhn himself mentioned only briefly in his own work, namely the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity.
%K Kuhn
%K scienti c concepts
%K family resemblance
%K conceptual change
%K taxonomies
%K categorization
%U http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/spe/article/view/107/78