Kuhn vs Popper - About James H. Collier

influence dissipated in the long term, as membersof the paradigm’s network, lacking a mechanism forreproducing their collective work, regress to thenorms of their home disciplines.Turner’s finding is worth recalling in an era whenuniversities are increasingly fixated on ‘knowledgemanagement’ strategies that identify dynamismwith flexible networks rather than autonomousinstitutions. Too bad Kuhn himself never made thepoint. On the contrary, in correspondence with hisbrilliant student Paul Forman at the height of theBerkeley student revolts in 1964–5, Kuhn urgedForman to ignore thorny issues of universitygovernance embroiling the campus and simplyfinish his dissertation. At one level, this is familiaradvice, but it is also emblematic of someone whocould never quite call the university home.141