Thomas Kuhn »s celebrated work, »The Structure of Scientific Revolutions » revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his »paradigm shift » view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive notion of »paradigm shift » in terms of the new concept of representational space. In doing so, Edwin H.-C. Hung is able to produce the first-ever unitary theory that solves the five central problems in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation, the structure of scientific theories, incommensurability, scientific change and physical necessity. The book identifies the main task of science as representing reality. This involves the construction of a representational space and the subsequent modeling of reality with configurations of »objects » in that space. Newton »s mechanics, Einstein »s relativity and quantum mechanics, then, all serve as representational spaces. »Beyond Kuhn » is a significant progression in scientific methodology. Other than serving as a sequel to Kuhn »s »Scientific Revolutions », it will be of great use in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and education.
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