Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best-known and most influential books of the twentieth century. But were Kuhn’s ideas as revolutionary as the conventional wisdom holds? Steve fuller argues that Kuhn advocated what was actually a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history-a view Fuller charges helped usher in the Science Wars and stifle much innovative research.