The Paranoid Style in American History of Science

Historian Richard Hofstadter’s observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn’s <em>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</em> and argue that substantive claims about the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific change found in Structure were a...

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Main Author: George Reisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2012-10-01
Series:Theoria
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/6273