On The Irrationalism Of Kuhn’s Philosophy

As the pioneer of historicism philosophy of science, Kuhn’s non-rational viewof science is a serious challenge to the science that considered of rationality. For along time, people have been pay more attention in practice and rational factors in theprocess of development of science and philosophy, but has been neglect of the role ofirrational factors in the process. In contemporary philosophy, non-rationalism hasgradually rising, that caused an objective challenge to the rationalism, and this changemakes the irrational gradually become an important and prominent. Therefore, thedepth study of the irrational has great significance for promoting the progress oftechnology science and society. Kuhn’s irrationalism has the theoretical level andpractical level values. In the long process of scientific development, scholars ofvarious schools of the mindset that science is a fixed body of knowledge. Kuhn’scourage that take risks to explore the spirit of denial of this traditional view, he thinkthat science is not only a knowledge system that already exists, it is we human beingsto explore the law in a variety of practical activities, to understand the world,transforming the world of creative activity. Scientific activities not only related to theobject as subject and as object, it should be the mutual influence of the activities inthe scientific community, scientific paradigm and the specific objective. Kuhn hasbeen introducing the scientific standard of irrational factors creatively, so we get tore-examine the scientific point of view and platform through. Kuhn’s non-rationalphilosophy tells us that we should use the sense of balance to treat every one of things,each thing, each activity, including science. We can not blindly worship science,neither can not sell our own knowledge. It’s essential to maintain the diversity ofcivilizations and diversity, which is the irrationalism of Kuhn’s philosophy, brings us aprofound revelation.The purpose of this article is to sort out and to analyze the irrational ideas ofKuhn and his critics comment, and try to his non-rationalist view in a fair andobjective evaluation of the irrational ideas of Kuhn, based on the philosophical viewsof Kuhn’s irrationalism. Firstly, this book introduces the origins of the life of Kuhnand Kuhn’s irrationalism thoughts and reveals the non-rationalist theoreticalbackground. Secondly, Kuhn’s irrationalism view analysis and elaboration of thesystem, focuses on system analysis of the theory of Kuhn’s "paradigm" and theincommensurability of the embodiment of irrationalism, and then analyzed for Kuhn non-rationalist critical and Kuhn’s own reply to criticism. Finally, summarize thevalue of its non-rational philosophy, through the analysis of Kuhn non-rationalism,and explore its non-rational view of progress and guiding significance.