ABSTRACT
According to conventional wisdom, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1) played a major role in the demise of logical empiricism by (2) demolishing its key tenets and replacing them with an alternative picture of science that has virtually nothing in common with them. However, the relationship between Kuhn’s views and logical empiricism is not at all as straightforward as this claim suggests. While (1) is undoubtedly correct, the revisionist historiography of logical empiricism in the last two and a half decades documented that (2) is far from true. In this chapter, the major findings of this historiography are highlighted by focusing on “the Carnap-Kuhn connection” and the anticipation of Kuhnian themes in Carnap.
