Shifting Paradigms

Alexander Blum; Kostas Gavroglu; Christian Joas; Jürgen Renn

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A1  - Jürgen Renn
AB  - The publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 stands for a turning point in the history and philosophy of science. The repercussions of this work have rearticulated the theoretical framework of history and philosophy of science and have also generated discussions that contributed to the formation of the communities of historians as well as philosophers of science in many parts of the world. Different approaches to history of science have since emerged and most of them have the "Structure" as their reference point. In October 2012, a conference at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science brought together some of the historians of science whose work has played a decisive role in the ways history of science has evolved as a field of research in the past 50 years, both intellectually and institutionally. This volume gathers reflections by many of these historians on the history of the history of science, based on the presentations and discussions at the conference. The topics covered range from personal recollections of working with Thomas Kuhn to broad overviews of the historical development of the history of science as a discipline in the past half-century. The series Proceedings of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de.
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Proceedings 8

Shifting Paradigms

Thomas S. Kuhn and the History of Science

Alexander Blum, Kostas Gavroglu, Christian Joas, Jürgen Renn (eds.)

Studies of the history of the history of science, with emphasis on the work of T.S. Kuhn.

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Studies of the history of the history of science, with emphasis on the work of T.S. Kuhn.

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The publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 stands for a turning point in the history and philosophy of science. The repercussions of this work have rearticulated the theoretical framework of history and philosophy of science and have also generated discussions that contributed to the formation of the communities of historians as well as philosophers of science in many parts of the world. Different approaches to history of science have since emerged and most of them have the "Structure" as their reference point. In October 2012, a conference at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science brought together some of the historians of science whose work has played a decisive role in the ways history of science has evolved as a field of research in the past 50 years, both intellectually and institutionally. This volume gathers reflections by many of these historians on the history of the history of science, based on the presentations and discussions at the conference. The topics covered range from personal recollections of working with Thomas Kuhn to broad overviews of the historical development of the history of science as a discipline in the past half-century. The series Proceedings of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de.

Introduction
Alexander Blum, Kostas Gavroglu, Christian Joas, Jürgen Renn

Where to Start?
John L. Heilbron

Part 1: Personal Recollections

1 The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Interview with Thomas S. Kuhn
Skúli Sigurdsson

2 Steve’s Question and Tom’s Last Lecture: A Personal Perspective
Gerald Holton

3 Thomas Kuhn: A Man of Many Parts
William Shea

Part 2: Historicizing Kuhn

4 An Episode from the History of History and Philosophy of Science: The Phenomenal Publishing Success of Kuhn’s Structure
Kostas Gavroglu

5 Kuhn’s Paradigm of Paradigms: Historical and Epistemological Coordinates of The Copernican Revolution
Pietro Daniel Omodeo

6 Contemporary Science and the History and Philosophy of Science
Olival Freire Jr.

7 Kuhn in the Cold War
Ursula Klein

8 Science, Criticism and the Search for Truth: Philosophical Footnotes to Kuhn’s Historiography
Stefano Gattei

9 Two Encounters
Fynn Ole Engler, Jürgen Renn

Part 3: Kuhn’s Legacy

10 Thomas Kuhn
Jed Z. Buchwald

11 Thomas Kuhn and the Dialogue Between Historians and Philosophers of Science
William Shea

12 Constructive Controversy and the Growth of Knowledge
Martin J. S. Rudwick

13 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and History and Philosophy of Science in Historical Perspective
Theodore Arabatzis

14 On Reading Kuhn’s Black-Body Theory and the Quantum
Discontinuity, 1894–1912
Richard Staley

15 Science, Politics, Economics and Kuhn’s Paradigms
José M. Sánchez-Ron

16 Abgesang on Kuhn’s “Revolutions”
Ursula Klein

Part 4: Reinterpreting Kuhn

17 The Pendulum as a Social Institution: T. S. Kuhn and the
Sociology of Science
David Bloor

18 The Notion of Incommensurability
Harry Collins

19 Kuhn, Meritocracy, and Excellence
Michael Segre

20 From Structures and Tensions in Science to Configurational Histories of the Practices of Knowledge
John Pickstone

Part 5: Beyond Kuhn

21 Kuhnian and Post-Kuhnian Views on How Science Evolves
Mary Jo Nye

22 Experimental Turnaround, 360°: The Essential Kuhn Circle
Carsten Reinhardt

23 History of Science: The French Connection
John Stachel

24 The Professionalization of Research on the History of Science in China and the Influence of Eurocentrism on Chinese Historians of Science
Baichun Zhang

25 On Kuhnian and Hacking-Type Revolutions
Silvan S. Schweber

26 Goethe Was Right: ‘The History of Science Is Science Itself’
M. Norton Wise

27 History of Science and Technology in Portugal: Networking in the European Periphery
Ana Simões

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Bachelard, Gaston

Balibar, Étienne

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Barnes, Barry

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Barnes, Harry Elmer

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Bell, John Stewart

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Beller, Mara

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Ben-David, Joseph

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Benedetti, Giovanni Battista

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Bergson, Henri

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Bernal, John Desmond

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Bernard, Claude

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Biagioli, Mario

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Bird, Alexander

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Blackburn, Simon

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Bloor, David

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Bohm, David

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Bohr, Niels

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Borkenau, Franz

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Born, Max

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Brahe, Tycho

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Brown, Theodore

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Bruno, Giordano

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Brush, Stephen G.

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Bub, Jeffrey

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Bukharin, Nikolai

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Bunge, Mario

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Burgess, Anthony

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Buridan, John

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Butterfield, Herbert

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Canguilhem, Georges

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Cardwell, Donald

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Carnap, Rudolf

Carson, Rachel

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Cavaillès, Jean

Cebrián, Juan Luis

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Chang, Hasok

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Chew, Geoffrey

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Chomsky, Noam

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Chu, Co-ching

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Clagett, Marshall

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Clark, George

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Clauser, John F.

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Cohen, Bernard

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Cohen, Floris

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Collins, Harry

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Commoner, Barry

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Comte, Auguste

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Conant, James B.

Copernicus, Nikolaus

Cortesão, Armando

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Cortesão, Jaime

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Creager, Angela

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Crew, Henry

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Crombie, Alistair

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Cross, Andrew

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Cuvier, Georges

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Damerow, Peter

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Danto, Arthur

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Darwin, Charles

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De la Beche, Henry Thomas

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De Salvio, Alfonsos

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Debus, Allen

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Descartes, René

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Dirac, Paul

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Duhem, Pierre

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Durkeim, Emile

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D’Amico, Robert

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Edkins, Joseph

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Einstein, Albert

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Favaro, Antonio

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FitzGerald, George F.

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Fleck, Ludwig

Forman, Paul

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Foucault, Michel

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Fox, Robert

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Freudenthal, Gideon

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Friedan, Betty

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Friedman, Milton

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Galambos, Louis

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Galilei, Galileo

Galison, Peter

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Gaud, William

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Ginzburg, Carlo

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Goethe, J. W. von

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Goldberg, Stanley

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Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Gravner, Janko

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Greenough, George Bellas

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Griffeath, David

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Grossmann, Henryk

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Guerlac, Henry

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Guo, Moruo

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Hacking, Ian

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Hagstrom, Waren

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Hall, Rupert

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Hanson, Norwood Russell

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Harrington, Michael

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Harvey, Bill

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Heilbron, John

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Heisenberg, Werner

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Helmholtz, Hermann von

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Hempel, Carl

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Herschel, John

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Hertz, Heinrich

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Hessen, Boris

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Hooykaas, Reijer

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Hoyningen-Huene, Paul

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Hughes, Tom

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Hume, David

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Jammer, Max

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Johnson, Virginia

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Jordanus de Nemore

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Julien, Stanislas

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Kant, Immanuel

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Kelvin, William Thomson

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Kepler, Johannes

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Koertge, Noretta

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Koyré, Alexandre

Kubrick, Stanley

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Kusch, Martin

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Lakatos, Imre

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Lange, Otto

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Latour, Bruno

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Leary, Timothy

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Lenin, Vladimir

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Lewis, Bernard

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Libbrecht, Kenneth

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Lovejoy, Arthur

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Mannheim, Karl

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Money, John

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Morrell, Jack

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Nader, Ralph

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Pais, Abraham

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Parsons Martin, William Alexander

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Pereira da Silva, Luciano

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Shifting Paradigms

Thomas S. Kuhn and the History of Science

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Agar, Jon

Agassi, Joseph

Albuquerque, Luís de

Allen, Lini

Andrade e Silva, João Luís

Archimedes

Aristotle

Aspect, Alain

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Bachelard, Gaston

Balibar, Étienne

Barnes, Barry

Barnes, Harry Elmer

Bell, John Stewart

Beller, Mara

Ben-David, Joseph

Benedetti, Giovanni Battista

Bergson, Henri

Bernal, John Desmond

Bernard, Claude

Biagioli, Mario

Bird, Alexander

Blackburn, Simon

Bloor, David

Bohm, David

Bohr, Niels

Borkenau, Franz

Born, Max

Brahe, Tycho

Brown, Theodore

Bruno, Giordano

Brush, Stephen G.

Bub, Jeffrey

Bukharin, Nikolai

Bunge, Mario

Burgess, Anthony

Buridan, John

Butterfield, Herbert

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Canguilhem, Georges

Cardwell, Donald

Carnap, Rudolf

Carson, Rachel

Cavaillès, Jean

Cebrián, Juan Luis

Chang, Hasok

Chew, Geoffrey

Chomsky, Noam

Chu, Co-ching

Clagett, Marshall

Clark, George

Clauser, John F.

Cohen, Bernard

Cohen, Floris

Collins, Harry

Commoner, Barry

Comte, Auguste

Conant, James B.

Copernicus, Nikolaus

Cortesão, Armando

Cortesão, Jaime

Creager, Angela

Crew, Henry

Crombie, Alistair

Cross, Andrew

Cuvier, Georges

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Damerow, Peter

Danto, Arthur

Darwin, Charles

De la Beche, Henry Thomas

De Salvio, Alfonsos

Debus, Allen

Descartes, René

Dirac, Paul

Duhem, Pierre

Durkeim, Emile