The Road since Structure

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1. erreJulianAug 2019
   Kuhn himself disowned much of his early views, refining his original intuitions in “The Structure”. There’s an essay on [1] in which he tries to offer a novel interpretation.

   [2]: [https://www.amazon.com/Road-since-Structure-Philosophical-Au...

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2. 609veneziaAug 2019
   Working link:

   https://www.amazon.com/Road-since-Structure-Philosophical-Au...

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3. jseligerJan 2013
   If you claim to have proved a big new result, and you don't already have the credentials that will ensure you get taken seriously, then it is up to you to write in such a way that makes it easy for other academics to verify your work. Part of being an academic is interacting with other academics.

   This reminds me of the introduction to Thomas Kuhn's The Road Since Structure:

   "Kuhn develops further the theme, which again goes back to Structure, that science is fundamentally a social undertaking. This shows up especially in times of trouble, with the potential for more or less radical change. It is only because individuals working in a common research tradition are able to arrive at differing judgments concerning the degree of seriousness of the various difficulties they collectively face that some of them will be moved individually to explore alternative (often—as Kuhn likes to emphasize—seemingly nonsensical) possibilities, while others will attempt doggedly to resolve the problem within the current framework" {Conant and Haugeland "Road"@3}.

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4. jseligerJul 2010
   Great post. A lot of what you're describing is implied in Richard Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science:" http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm , which is also available in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. The whole book is recommended.

   So is Thomas Kuhn's The Road Since Structure, which collects many of his papers on, mostly, the philosophy and history of science, which are more interesting than I would've thought.

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