The Paranoid Style in American History of Science

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THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, ISSN: 0495-4548, Vol: 27, Issue: 3, Page: 323-342

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2012
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    Repository URL:
    http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10198
    DOI:
    10.1387/theoria.6273
    Author(s):
    Reisch, George
    Publisher(s):
    UPV/EHU Press; Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco
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    Arts and Humanities
    article description
    Historian Richard Hofstadter's observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and argue that substantive claims about the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific change found in Structure were adopted from this cold-war political culture.