Two cultures or one? A second look at Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution.

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Mar 1994

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Isis, Vol. 85, No. 1, p. 79 - 115

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History Of Astronomy: Philosophical Aspects

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This essay presents a critical reassessment of the famous book by Thomas Kuhn The Copernican Revolution (1957). The author looks more closely and critically at how Kuhn constitutes his scientific revolution as a version of the "two cultures" problem: an encounter between an internal, technical specialty and a cluster of external disciplines. Along the way he follows a juxtapositional strategy, commenting critically on Kuhn's interpretation of particular episodes as well as providing alternative interpretations that subsequent historical scholarship has brought to light. Finally, the author offers a historicist's perspective on Kuhn's story while noting the reemergence of the two-cultures question within the historicist enterprise.

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