Kuhn vs Popper - About James H. Collier

. CHAPTER 2 .KUHN AND POPPER: A CASEOF MISTAKEN IDENTITIESOne especially interesting aspect of [Lakatos’conference] volume is that it provides a developedexample of a minor culture clash … Read asan example, it could be an object for study andanalysis, providing concrete information concerninga type of developmental episode about whichwe know very little.Thomas Kuhn, ‘Reflections on My Critics’So who were Kuhn and Popper, and what did theysay? Let us start with the book that provided theoccasion for the London encounter. The Structure ofScientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn was the mostinfluential book on the nature of science in thesecond half of the 20th century – and arguably, theentire 20th century. Nevertheless, a reminder of thebook’s contents immediately makes this fact rathersurprising. Structure purports to provide a generalaccount of scientific change in 200 non-technical,lightly referenced pages, in the manner of an18