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
...MoreArticle Mayoral, Juan Vicente (2012) Five Decades of Structure: A Retrospective View. Theoria (0495-4548) (pp. 261-280).
Similar Citations
Book
George A. Reisch;
(2019)
The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”
(/isis/citation/CBB213032534/)
Article
Nieto-Galan, Agustí;
(2011)
Antonio Gramsci Revisited: Historians of Science, Intellectuals, and the Struggle for Hegemony
(/isis/citation/CBB001036165/)
Article
Christopher Hamlin;
(2016)
The Pedagogical Roots of the History of Science: Revisiting the Vision of James Bryant Conant
(/isis/citation/CBB879384144/)
Article
Biddle, Justin;
(2011)
Putting Pragmatism to Work in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and Politics in the Writings of James B. Conant
(/isis/citation/CBB001230567/)
Article
Daiwie Fu;
(2020)
A genealogical explication on the emergence and constructions of STS: A view from East Asia
(/isis/citation/CBB147327500/)
Article
Gordin, Michael D.;
Milam, Erika Lorraine;
(2012)
A Repository for More than Anecdote: Fifty Years of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
(/isis/citation/CBB001252330/)
Article
Jacobs, Struan;
(2010)
J. B. Conant's Other Assistant: Science as Depicted by Leonard K. Nash, Including Reference to Thomas Kuhn
(/isis/citation/CBB001034603/)
Article
K. Brad Wray;
(2016)
The Influence of James B. Conant on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions
(/isis/citation/CBB817361534/)
Article
David Brandon Dennis;
R. A. Lawson;
Jessica M. Pisano;
(2020)
Bringing History into the Lab: A New Approach to Scientific Learning in General Education
(/isis/citation/CBB574408801/)
Book
Jennet Conant;
(2017)
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
(/isis/citation/CBB810593164/)
Chapter
Parides, Peter K.;
(2009)
To Run with the Swift: Vannevar Bush, James Conant, and the Race to the Bomb---How American Science Was Drafted into Wartime Service
(/isis/citation/CBB000952561/)
Chapter
Ursula Klein;
(2016)
Kuhn in the Cold War
(/isis/citation/CBB635475168/)
Chapter
Golinski, Jan;
(2012)
Thomas Kuhn and Interdisciplinary Conversation: Why Historians and Philosophers of Science Stopped Talking to One Another
(/isis/citation/CBB001500240/)
Article
Massimiliano Simons;
(2017)
The Many Encounters of Thomas Kuhn and French Epistemology
(/isis/citation/CBB767765136/)
Article
Anke te Heesen;
(2020)
Thomas S. Kuhn, Earwitness: Interviewing and the Making of a New History of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB135322645/)
Book
Kindi, Vasso P.;
Arabatzis, Theodore;
(2012)
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
(/isis/citation/CBB001421709/)
Chapter
Theodore Arabatzis;
(2016)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and History and Philosophy of Science in Historical Perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB313154329/)
Chapter
Richard Staley;
(2016)
On Reading Kuhn’s Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912
(/isis/citation/CBB117429443/)
Chapter
David Bloor;
(2016)
The Pendulum as a Social Institution: T. S. Kuhn and the Sociology of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB884469210/)
Article
Junghans, Miriam;
(2011)
Traduzindo Fleck: entrevista com Georg Otte e Mariana Camilo de Oliveira
(/isis/citation/CBB001420554/)
Be the first to comment!