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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| description | 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 adopted from this cold-war political culture |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9709a6d6ca6f41439cb6ac0755e098942022-12-22T03:36:50ZengUniversity of the Basque CountryTheoria0495-45482171-679X2012-10-0127332334210.1387/theoria.62735292The Paranoid Style in American History of ScienceGeorge ReischHistorian 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 adopted from this cold-war political culturehttp://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/6273Thomas S. KuhnThe Structure of Scientific RevolutionsRichard Hofstadter“The Paranoid Style in American Politics” Cold WarJames B. ConantBrainwashing |
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| title | The Paranoid Style in American History of Science |
| title_full | The Paranoid Style in American History of Science |
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| title_short | The Paranoid Style in American History of Science |
| title_sort | paranoid style in american history of science |
| topic | Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Richard Hofstadter “The Paranoid Style in American Politics ” Cold War James B. Conant Brainwashing |
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