Wittgenstein and Kuhn: Towards a new epistemology

The new image of science that is presented by Thomas S. Kuhn has often been criticized on the ground that it leads to relativity. Even though Kuhn tries to respond these criticisms after his main work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, it does not seem that he satisfactorily overcomes them. The main purpose of this study is to read the image of science Kuhn presents with the late Wittgenstein's concept of grammar and to discuss the opportunities that emerge from this kind of reading with regards to relativity debate. This study consists of three main parts. The first of these describes Kuhn's image of science with reference to its formation and historical development and discusses its relation to relativity. The second part examines the main features of Wittgensteinian concept of grammar, which shapes the idea of the study. In the third and last part, Kuhn's image of science is re-considered with reference to the concept of grammar and the consequence of this kind of consideration for relativity debates is discussed.