9 articles in this issue
Mauro L. Condé
From the Editors
Charles Djordjevic
This paper aims to demonstrate the fecundity of pairing specific insights from On Certainty with research in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences. To do so, it discusses one set of related themes in the work that focus on the possi... see more
Mirian Donat
This article evaluates Wittgenstein’s possible contributions to an epistemology of psychology. Although the author admittedly neither proposes an epistemology nor examines specific issues of psychology as a science, we understand that his reflections on t... see more
Cristiane Maria Cornelia Gottschalk
The concept of paradigm became, in the middle of the last century, a central concept in the philosophical discussion about the nature of scientific knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to the strength of this concept in the constitution of t... see more
Eduardo Simões
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the Wittgenstein Tractatus deals with themes related to the laws of nature, as well as with the metatheoretical principles of science. More specifically, our intention is to expose the notions of scientifi... see more
Wagner Teles de Oliveira
For dropping the incommensurability idea elaborated at the time of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn dismisses the concept of “revolution”. The incommensurability involved the incomparability of theories. In this new environment, the revolutio... see more
The article aims to demonstrate the possibility of writing the history of science from the later Wittgenstein viewpoint. To accomplish this purpose, it exposes the “theory of history” of Wittgensteinian inspiration, called “grammar of history”. Then it di... see more
Eduardo Salles de O. Barra,Veronica Ferreira Bahr Calazans,Mauro L. Condé
Interview: Eduardo Salles de O. Barra
Fernanda Schiavo Nogueira