Thomas Kuhn's irrationalism

New Criterion 18 (10):29-34 (2000)
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Criticizes the irrationalist and social constructionist tendencies in Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.

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