Kuhn vs Popper - About James H. Collier

political right than popular mythology would have.The first port of call for queries about the details inthis book should be these two books and a third,John Kadvany, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason(Durham: Duke University Press, 2001).All the final versions of the papers from theoriginal Kuhn–Popper encounter are compiled inCriticism and the Growth of Knowledge, eds ImreLakatos and Alan Musgrave (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1970). Another inspired collectionof related texts is Scientific Revolutions, ed. IanHacking (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981). Itincludes Dudley Shapere’s ‘Meaning and ScientificChange’, an early systematic attempt to integrateKuhn’s Structure into mainstream philosophy ofscience, Popper’s ‘The Rationality of ScientificRevolutions’, Lakatos’ ‘History of Science and ItsRational Reconstructions’ and Feyerabend’s ‘Howto Defend Society against Science’. Also worthconsulting is the Lakatos–Feyerabend correspondencefrom 1968 to 1974, which reveals theacademic and real-world politics that fuelled theirphilosophical imaginations: Imre Lakatos and PaulFeyerabend, For and Against Method, ed. MatteoMotterlini (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1999). This book also usefully includes a transcribedversion of the last set of Lakatos’ undergraduatelectures. Readers who do not recall the220