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On this occasion, and in this place, I feel that I ought, and am probably expected, to look back at the things which have happened to the philosophy of science since I first began to take an interest in it over half a century ago. But I am both too much an outsider and too much a protagonist to undertake that assignment. Rather than attempt to situate the present state of philosophy of science with respect to its past — a subject on which I’ve little authority — I shall try to situate my present state in philosophy of science with respect to its own past — a subject on which, however imperfect, I’m probably the best authority there is.
PSA 1990, vol. 2 (1991), pp. 3–13. This paper was delivered by Kuhn as the Presidential Address at the 1990 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
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Kuhn, T.S. (1991). The Road Since Structure. In: Tauber, A.I. (eds) Science and the Quest for Reality. Main Trends of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25249-7_10
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