Paradigms Gone Wild
Steven Shapin, 30 March 2023
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
edited by Bojana Mladenović.
Chicago, 302 pp., £20, November 2022,978 0 226 82274 7 Show More
edited by Bojana Mladenović.
Chicago, 302 pp., £20, November 2022,
“... which rivalled Berkeley for radicalism – the students’ two great intellectual heroes were Herbert Marcuse and himself. The idea of ‘being a guru’, he said, ‘scared the shit out of me’.Campus radicals seized on Kuhn’s book as a brilliantly subversive exposé. Just as they had suspected, science wasn’t the open-minded objective pursuit ... ”