id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ta44ni6b5bglbis67oxt2jd25e Stefano Gattei Karl Popper's Philosophical Breakthrough* 2004 7 .pdf application/pdf 3066 225 65 ain, after his Thomas Kuhn: a Philosophical History of Our Times Whereas Popper clearly separated justification and criticism, in Kuhn (as well separation is achieved, instead of positing authorities to guarantee and criticize actions and opinions, the aim becomes that of constructing a philosophical programme to foster the growth of knowledge and to counteract within a given scientific community, an immediate consequence of Kuhn's science as a social institution and his attempt to define scientific knowledge, saying that for most of the time leading scientists rightly shield from criticism the ruling scientific idea of the day Kuhn and Rorty utterly disregard Popper advanced an evolutionary epistemology according to which ideas are subjected to sharp competition, science is a revolutionary activity dedicated to pursuing truth by overthrowing error, and (2002) 'Kuhn's Way', Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32: 394–430. W. (2000) Thomas Kuhn: a Philosophical History of Our Times. ./cache/work_ta44ni6b5bglbis67oxt2jd25e.pdf ./txt/work_ta44ni6b5bglbis67oxt2jd25e.txt