Models of scientific community : Charles Sanders Peirce
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‘Scientific community’ is common currency in the study of science, largely due to Kuhn’s use of the term in his highly influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. As this article explains, however, ‘scientific community’ was not of Kuhn’s coining. It was hinted at by Peirce, and expressly designated by Royce. On a few occasions Fleck affirmed a scientific community, while Polanyi studied it in some detail. The article concludes by comparing these thinkers’ ‘communitarian’ interpretations of science.
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