Review of Thomas S. Kuhn's Book: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Abstract

Kuhn rejects the attainment of truth that comes from science, but then he is found accepting the absolute truth of a Darwinian evolution now operating above the conflicts of science. To Kuhn, only this blind watchmaker drives the emergence of new scientific paradigms, and a successful paradigm is fittest merely because of an empty politics. Kuhn goes from contradiction to a circular argument: that science finds no truth because truth is not permitted at the level of the paradigm. This realization should provide the refutation of Kuhn's paradigm dependent science. But rather than admit the obvious that science somehow stumbles upon the truth by way of a paradigm turned induction, Kuhn would rather say that science does not seek truth at all. Even Popper would not go this far. You can find this book at Amazon: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.