ABSTRACT
In the last chapter of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn suggested that we replace the teleological view of scientific development by an evolutionary image. Kuhn writes that “the developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings. … But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything” (SSR, 170; emphasis in original). 1 Although the concept of evolution played a role in Kuhn’s thinking from the early stages of his career, the later Kuhn took even greater interest in it. The fact that people hadn’t ceased viewing science getting closer to something and begun to see it moving away from something troubled him still in the final stages of his life (RSS, 307–308).
