Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times
Steve Fuller
Price
1765
ISBN
9788125028130
Language
English
Pages
472
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2005
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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Thomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best-known and most influential books of the twentieth century. But were Kuhn's ideas as revolutionary as the conventional wisdom holds? Steve Fuller argues that Kuhn advocated what was actually a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history - a view Fuller charges helped usher in the "Science Wars" and stifle much innovative research.

Steve Fuller, trained in the history and philosophy of science, is now professor of sociology at the University of Warwick.