Volume 33, Issue 2, 2006/2007
Struan Jacobs
Pages 25-36
Michael Polanyi and Thomas Kuhn
Priority and Credit
The article argues that Polanyi was a likely source of influence on the theory of science that Kuhn developed in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). The striking similarity between Kuhn’s idea of
incommuensurability and Polanyi’s rendering of scientific controversy in Personal Knowledge is featured here, and is used to expose a tension between Polanyi's notions of scientific controversy and unfolding truth.