Kuhn vs Popper - About James H. Collier

Steven Turner, ‘Paradigms and Productivity’, SocialStudies of Science 17 (1987), pp. 35–68.Perhaps the most influential – and misguided –attempt to turn Kuhn into a radical thinker appearsin Part Three of Richard Rorty, Philosophy and theMirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1979). The dubious honour of misapplyingKuhn to legitimate the social sciences must go toCharles Taylor, ‘Interpretation and the Sciences ofMan’, Review of Metaphysics 25 (1971), pp. 3–51. Onhow Kuhn has changed the philosophy of scienceby making it much more ‘philosophy for science’,see Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or How RealPhilosophy of Science is Done, ed. Werner Callebaut(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), acreative and revealing set of interviews; TheDisunity of Science, eds Peter Galison and DavidStump (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), arepresentative anthology of post-Kuhnian sciencestudies; Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983),still the best textbook capturing this sensibility as abreak from earlier philosophy of science. Perhapsthe most publicly successful post-Kuhnian has beenPhilip Kitcher, a student of Kuhn’s at Princetonwho has authored a series of sophisticated popularworks of pro-science partisanship, including frontalassaults on Creationism and socio-biology and a224