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The Paranoid Style in American History of Science

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Historian Richard Hofstadter's observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and argue that substantive claims about the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific change found in Structure were adopted from this cold-war political culture

Source: THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science

DOI: 10.1387/theoria.6273

Author: George Reisch

Language: English

Topic: Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2135197300

FWCI: 1.456

Cites: 34

Cited by: 32

Related to: 10