Through Paradigm-Land to a Normal History of Science
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Social Studies of Science
- Vol. 10 (4) , 475-496
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030631278001000403
Abstract
The doctrines of T. S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, rev. edn 1970) have had considerable influence in a wide variety of fields. Although derived from the history of science and purporting to present a theory of how the sciences developed in time, history of science itself has remained largely immune to the Kuhnian paradigm. Not only have historians of science found few, if any, confirming instances, but the overall trend among English-speaking historians of science is to another intellectual stance, one largely indifferent to the spirit and many of the specifics of Kuhn's viewpoint. The origins and characteristics of this emerging consensus are briefly sketched.Keywords
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