A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 13:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientific American 's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which appeared two years after the initial publication of Structure as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science , discarded as unoriginal Kuhn's critique of the positivist argument that science progresses relentlessly forward toward the truth. [More]
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