Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science

Steve Fuller

January, 2005
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13428-6
$27.00

In Search of the Causes of a Non-Event

Kuhn and Popper: A Case of Mistaken Identities

Popperian Suspicions and Kuhnian Vindication

We’ve Been Here Before: The Prehistory of the Debate

Dialectics as the Pulse of Scientific Progress

A Parting Shot at the Misunderstanding

Why Philosophers Get No Respect from Scientists

So, Why Are Philosophers of Science Pro-Science?

The Return of the Repressed: Philosophers as Tory Historians of Science

The Religious Unconscious of the Debate

Do We Believe by Evidence or by Decision? A Very Short History of Epistemology

The University as the Absent Presence of the Kuhn–Popper Debate

Popper and Adorno United: The Rationalist Left at Positivism’s Wake

Popper and Adorno Divided: The Rationalist Left Haunted by Historicism

How to be Responsible for Ideas—the Popperian Way

Failing the Popperian Test for Intellectual Responsibility: Rorty on Heidegger

Is Thomas Kuhn the American Heidegger?

Related Subjects

• General Science
• Philosophy of Science

Series

• Revolutions in Science

About the Author

Steve Fuller is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick, England, and the author of Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times.

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