Book contents
- Kuhn’s Intellectual Path
- Kuhn’s Intellectual Path
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Groundwork for Structure: Harvard 1947 to 1955
- Chapter 1 What Did Aristotle Teach Kuhn?
- Chapter 2 The Influence of James B. Conant
- Chapter 3 Kuhn and the History of Chemistry
- Chapter 4 Kuhn and the Logical Positivists
- Part II The Unexpected Uptake: Kuhn and the Social Sciences
- Part III Kuhn and the History of Science
- Part IV Kuhn’s Philosophical Legacy
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - What Did Aristotle Teach Kuhn?
from Part I - The Groundwork for Structure: Harvard 1947 to 1955
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2022
Book contents
- Kuhn’s Intellectual Path
- Kuhn’s Intellectual Path
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Groundwork for Structure: Harvard 1947 to 1955
- Chapter 1 What Did Aristotle Teach Kuhn?
- Chapter 2 The Influence of James B. Conant
- Chapter 3 Kuhn and the History of Chemistry
- Chapter 4 Kuhn and the Logical Positivists
- Part II The Unexpected Uptake: Kuhn and the Social Sciences
- Part III Kuhn and the History of Science
- Part IV Kuhn’s Philosophical Legacy
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I examine Kuhn's Aristotle epiphany, which set him on the course to writing SSR. He learned to see that earlier scientific theories are fundamentally different than the theories that replace them.
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- Kuhn's Intellectual PathCharting <I>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</I>, pp. 11 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021