Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Two Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science -- The Idol of Certainty -- Karl Popper, "Boundary" Philosopher between Neopositivists and -- New Philosophers of Science -- The American Adventure of Logical Positivism -- The Revolt against Empiricism -- 2 Kuhn and the "New Philosophy of Science" -- The Early Phase of the Debate -- London 1965: Kuhn versus Popper -- 3 Incommensurability -- Different Ways of Understanding Incommensurability -- Some Precedents -- Paul K. Feyerabend and Thomas S. Kuhn -- The Critics -- Feyerabend and the Return to Ontological Issues -- 4 Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn" -- From Paradigms to Lexicons -- The Linguistic Theory of Scientific Revolutions -- Open Issues -- 5 The Shadow of Positivism -- Carnap and Kuhn -- Truth -- Kuhn and Popper: Clashing Metaphysics -- Kuhn and the Legacy of Logical Positivism -- Bibliography -- Index.