Politics of Paradigms

George A. Reisch is managing editor of The Monist and series editor for Open Court Publishing Company's series Popular Culture and Philosophy.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceBombs and Books: An IntroductionTimeline of Events and DocumentsCast of Additional Characters Part I. War and Crisis1. Progress and Revolution in the Suburbs of New York2. War and General Education at Harvard3. History of Science in a Divided World Part II. "The Struggle for Men’s Minds"4. The Cold War Conversions of Thomas S. Kuhn and James Bryant Conant5. Sidney Hook and the Anticommunist Inquisition6. Brainwashing, or the Structure of Philosophical Revolutions7. The Necessary Dangers of Consensus and Unity Part III. The Cold War Origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions8. The Language, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis of Scientific "Reorientations"9. "Attention Senator McCarthy": The Perils of Methodology in Totalitarian Times10. Ideology and Revolution in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science 11. Progress, Ideology, and "Writing History Backwards"12. From "Ideology" and "Consensus" to Paradigmania Part IV. The New World of Paradigms13. "If Mr. Kuhn Is Right...": Paradigms and Dogmas in Cold War Science Education14. The Magic of Paradigms15. Spies, Prisons, Mobs, Bandwagons, and Beasts16. The Thomas Kuhn Experience17. A Revolution and a New IdeologyEpilogue: Writing and Rewriting HistoryAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

"The book is … full of new information, new insights and thought-provoking connections. It should be required reading for everyone interested in Kuhn's Structure, its sources and its political and cultural background." — Metascience"Impressive archival research into the entirety of Kuhn's publications, manuscript drafts, and letters exposes how his understanding of scientific revolutions was assembled … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This book raises and explores important questions about the ideological background of some of the most important work in the philosophy of science in the twentieth century. It challenges conventional wisdom about the ideological neutrality of that work." — Peter S. Fosl, editor of The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom