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,
“... The tragedy of Thomas Kuhn’s life was to have written a great book. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published in 1962, when he was forty, and he spent the rest of his life distressed by its success. It has sold 1.7 million copies, and has been translated into 42 languages. Very few academic books sell in those numbers and scarcely any are still seen as state of the art sixty years after publication ... ”