Through Paradigm-Land to a Normal History of Science

Bibliographic Data

ID11924139
AuthorsNathan Reingold (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume10
Issue4
Pages475-496
Publication date1980-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Studies of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/030631278001000403
OpenAlexW2061382246
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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

Epistemology · History of science · Intellectual history · Nature of Science · Normal science · Paradigm shift · Political science · Science education · Scientific revolution · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · History and Philosophy of Science · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies

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