- Hardcover: 244 pages
- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd (5 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840464682
- ISBN-13: 978-1840464689
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 570,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Reading Steve Fuller is like reading Umberto Eco on speed." Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester
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'This is the very book I’ve been needing to read for ages, to get things straight in my mind!’
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good introduction,
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This review is from: Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Paperback)
I recently considered starting an MSc in Philosophy of Science and decided to read something simple to gain some idea about the subject. I chose this book because the compulsory module for this MSc involves reading a lot about Kuhn. I did have some of Kuhn's books, but decided on something much simpler that I could easily read in a week.
The book is hard-going in places because for the layman, there are many unfamiliar terms used. Fortunately there is a glossary towards the end of the book which helps. This book gave me an insight into the work of Kuhn and convinced me that the philosophy of Science being discussed should be called Sociology of Science. This was enough to persuade me that I didn't really want to put the time, money and effort into studying for the stated MSc. It is fitting that Steve Fuller is a sociologist, as much of the content is really about the sociology of Science.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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A book that challenges your preconceptions,
By John Brewer (Amherst, Mass) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kuhn Vs.Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardcover)
The TLS had a review of this book a couple of weeks ago and managed to do the book justice. Basically Popperians will love the book at two levels. Not only does it defend Popper against Kuhn, but it also falsifies one’s – or at least my! -- preconception of what the Kuhn-Popper debate was really about.Make no mistake about it. ‘Kuhn vs Popper’ is not for the intellectually faint-hearted but its message is pretty clear, if not entirely welcomed by people who have come to believe that Kuhn is the last word on the nature of science. In any case, as Fuller points out, this debate really had very little influence on practicing scientists – but it influenced a lot of people who take science seriously as some basis for authority in society. What Fuller most regrets about Kuhn’s victory is that it has managed to allow a pretty conservative, heads-down approach to science to pass itself off as radical, just because Kuhn used a lot of radical-sounding words like ‘revolution’. The most interesting part of this book is the way Fuller gets you to think about the politics both in and around science as it’s done today. He argues that BOTH Kuhn and Popper would condemn the sort of money-hungry, status-seeking, power-grabbing activities all too frequently associated with science today. However, Popper was more openly critical of these tendencies, whereas Kuhn hid behind trendy but vague language that still manages to seduce some people.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great,
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This review is from: Kuhn Vs.Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardcover)
Another great book by Steve Fuller, epistemological debate at the highest level. Great for background reading or pure enjoyment, but if you're looking for the bare bones of Kuhn and Popper's arguments, don't by this book. It will give you some of them but you'll have to read the whole book.
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