Naslov
Kuhn Meets Maslow: The Psychology Behind Scientific Revolutions

Autori
Kožnjak, Boris

Izvornik
Journal for General Philosophy of Science (0925-4560) 48 (2017); 257-287

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Thomas Kuhn ; Abraham Maslow ; Normal science ; Revolutionary science ; Psychology of science ; Philosophy of science

Sažetak
In this paper, I offer a detailed reconstruction and a critical analysis of Abraham Maslow’s neglected psychological reading of Thomas Kuhn’s famous dichotomy between ‘normal’ and ‘revolutionary’ science, which Maslow briefly expounded four years after the first edition of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in his small book The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), and which relies heavily on his extensive earlier general writing in the motivational and personality psychology. Maslow’s Kuhnian ideas, put forward as part of a larger program for the psychology of science, outlined already in his 1954 magnum opus Motivation and Personality, are analyzed not only in the context of Kuhn’s original ‘psychologizing’ attitude toward understanding the nature and development of science, but also in a broader historical, intellectual and social context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Filozofija

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