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I examine the influence of James B. Conant on the writing of Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. By clarifying Conant’s influence on Kuhn, I also clarify the influence that others had on Kuhn’s thinking. And by identifying the various influences that Conant had on Kuhn’s view of science, I identify Kuhn’s most original contributions in Structure.

The Influence of James B. Conant on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions

K. Brad Wray

Contact K. Brad Wray at Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oswego, 212 Marano Campus Center, Oswego, New York 13126

ONLINE: Feb 09, 2016

I examine the influence of James B. Conant on the writing of Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. By clarifying Conant’s influence on Kuhn, I also clarify the influence that others had on Kuhn’s thinking. And by identifying the various influences that Conant had on Kuhn’s view of science, I identify Kuhn’s most original contributions in Structure.

On the one hand, I argue that much of the framework and many of the concepts that figure in Structure were part of Conant’s picture of science, a picture that figured prominently in the general education natural science courses that Conant taught at Harvard.

On the other hand, I show that Kuhn’s Structure contains important contributions that do not figure in Conant’s picture of science.

I argue that the following three themes in Structure do not originate with Conant:

(1) the concept of “normal science”;

(2) “the problem of scientific revolutions,” that is, the apparent threat posed by radical changes of theory in science;

and (3) Kuhn’s emphasis on the social dimensions of science, specifically the social structure of research communities.

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