Kuhn’s famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published in 1962, 15 years after his epiphany and just 3 years after Popper’s own great work on the scientific method first appeared in English. Nothing before or since has had a comparable impact on the philosophy of science; nothing has so altered the course of the Great Method Debate. A book on revolutions that took the ’60s by storm? You might suppose that Kuhn’s picture of science was a model of intellectual ferment, radical thinking, inspired resistance to the choke hold of tradition. Not so. Science is capable of
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