Abstract:
In the structure of scientific revolutions hereunder referred to as SSR (1962), Kuhn claimed to have
captured correctly how science is practiced. However, his critics such as Shapere (1984) argued that
Kuhn’s account is far from being a true account of how science is practiced. Consequently, this led to a
philosophical dispute on whether or not Kuhn’s work was a correct interpretation of how science is
practiced. In the light of the foregoing debate Kuhn published his The Essential Tension (1977) to
defend his position in his earlier book the SSR. In the context of this debate, this article is a
philosophical analysis to determine whether or not Kuhn’s SSR is a correct empirical description of
how science is practiced.
