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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Revolutions in Science and Science Studies | |
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| The Place of Kuhn's Work in Studies of Science | |
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| Revolutions in Science | |
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| Theories of Concepts | |
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| The Classical Theory of Concepts | |
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| The Roschian Revolution | |
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| Three Responses to the Roschian Revolution | |
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| Nature and Scope of the Present Work | |
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| Kuhn's Theory of Concepts | |
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| Exemplars | |
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| The Learning Procedure | |
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| Similarity, Dissimilarity, and Kind Hierarchies | |
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| Knowledge of Ontology and Knowledge of Regularities | |
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| Individual Differences and Graded Structures | |
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| Generalization to Scientific Concepts | |
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| Nomic and Normic Concepts | |
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| A Scientific Conceptual Structure: Early Nuclear Physics | |
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| Representing Concepts by Means of Dynamic Frames | |
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| Constituents of Dynamic Frames | |
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| Frames in Human Cognition | |
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| Evidence for Attribute-Value Sets | |
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| Evidence for Intraconceptual Relations | |
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| Family Resemblance and Graded Structure in Frames | |
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| Frames and Kind Hierarchies | |
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| Knowledge of Regularities and Ontological Knowledge | |
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| Value Constraints and Causal Theories | |
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| Scientific Change | |
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| The Phase Model of Scientific Development | |
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| Hierarchical Principles of Stable Conceptual Structures | |
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| The No-Overlap Principle | |
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| The Exhaustion Principle | |
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| The Inclusion Principle | |
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| Anomalies as Violations of the Hierarchical Principles | |
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| Sundevall's Taxonomy: Conceptual Revision in Normal Science | |
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| Core Concepts of Nuclear Physics in the 1930s | |
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| Anomalies in Nuclear Physics during the 1930s | |
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| Types of Conceptual Change | |
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| Revolutionary Change | |
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| The Gadow Taxonomy: Revolutionary Change without Communication Failure | |
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| Noddack, Fermi, and Fission: Revolutionary Change with Communication Failure | |
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| Conclusion: A Place for the Cognitive History of Science | |
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| Incommensurability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Development of Kuhn's Concept of Incommensurability | |
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| Representing Incommensurability in Frames | |
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| Galileo's Discoveries and the Conceptual Structure of Astronomy | |
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| The Copernican Revolution | |
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| The Conceptual Structure of Ptolemaic Astronomy | |
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| The Conceptual Structure of Copernican Astronomy | |
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| The Problem of the Equant Point | |
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| From Orbs to Orbits | |
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| The Conceptual Structure of Kepler's Astronomy | |
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| Incommensurability, Incremental Change, and the Copernican Revolution | |
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| Realism, History, and Cognitive Studies of Science | |
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| Results | |
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| Realism | |
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| Incommensurability and Realism | |
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| Entities in a Phenomenal World | |
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| Anomalies and Restructuring of the Phenomenal World | |
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| Chain-of-Reasoning Arguments, Conceptual Continuity, and Incommensurability | |
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| The Symmetry Thesis | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |