The heuristic circularity of commitment and the experience of discovery: A Polanyian critique of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Tradition and Discovery 16 (2):4-20 (1988)
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Abstract

My essay will be divided as follows: #1 Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions; #2 Critical soft spots found in both Kuhn and Polanyi; #3 How Polanyi can enrich Kuhn's description of scientific discoveries

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