Kant on Wheels
Peter Lipton: Thomas Kuhn, 19 July 2001
The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-93
by Thomas Kuhn, edited by James Conant and John Haugeland.
Chicago, 335 pp., £16, November 2000,0 226 45798 2 Show More
by Thomas Kuhn, edited by James Conant and John Haugeland.
Chicago, 335 pp., £16, November 2000,
Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times
by Steve Fuller.
Chicago, 472 pp., £24.50, June 2000,0 226 26894 2 Show More
by Steve Fuller.
Chicago, 472 pp., £24.50, June 2000,
“... At a New York cocktail party shortly after the war, a young and insecure physics postgraduate was heard to blurt out to a woman he had met there: ‘I just want to know what Truth is!’ This was Thomas Kuhn and what he meant was that specific truths such as those of physics mattered less to him than acquiring metaphysical knowledge of the nature of truth ... ”
