Science Studies e Thomas Kuhn

Stephen Turner

“The controversy over Thomas Kuhn’s astonishingly successful Structure of Scientific Revolutions ([1962]1996), which denied the possibility of a rational account of conceptual revolutions and characterized them in the language of collective psychology, created the conditions for producing the field that became ‘science studies’”

“A controvérsia sobre o estrondoso sucesso de A Estrutura das Revoluções Científicas, de Thomas Kuhn ([1962] 1996), o qual nega a possibilidade de uma abordagem racional das revoluções conceituais e as caracteriza na linguagem da psicologia coletiva, criou as condições para produção do campo que se tornou ‘science studies’ “

Fonte: TURNER, Stephen. The Social Study of Science before Kuhn. In: HACKETT, Edward J. et al (orgs.). Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, p. 33.