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  • 1 - “… I probably would never have written Structure”

  • from Part I - Writing Structure
  • Edited by K. Brad Wray, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book:
    Kuhn's <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> at 60
    Published online:
    05 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 21-36
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    Toward the end of his life, Thomas Kuhn came to know the then new historical literature that substantially revised our understanding of Rudolf Carnap’s ideas. He was so taken with the emerging parallels between his own work and Carnap’s that he said “if I had known about it, if I had been into the literature at that level, I probably would never have written Structure.” Kuhn’s statement here is truly remarkable. There are, of course, both similarities and differences between Carnap and Kuhn. The similarities suggest that their two views are open to some of the same significant challenges and criticisms. But the differences suggest how each can help the other to meet the criticisms posed.