%0 Journal Article %J Philosophy of Science %D 2009 %T Dynamics of Reason and the Kantian Project %A Van Dyck, Maarten %X

I show why Michael Friedman’s idea that we should view new constitutive frameworks introduced in paradigm-change as members of a convergent series, introduces an uncomfortable tension in his views. It cannot be justified on realist grounds, as this would compromise his Kantian perspective, but his own appeal to a Kantian regulative ideal of reason cannot do the job either. I then explain a way to make better sense of the rationality of paradigm-change on what I take to Friedman’s own terms.

%B Philosophy of Science %V 76 %P 389–400 %G eng