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While I highly appreciated Kuhn when I was reading The Structure, this sentence from the article: >Yes, Kuhn could be a bully, especially towards anyone who ch
by zaat 8y ago
While I highly appreciated Kuhn when I was reading The Structure, this sentence from the article:
>Yes, Kuhn could be a bully, especially towards anyone who challenged him, such as Errol or our late colleague Harold Dorn. But for someone like myself, non-threatening and interested in science and the Enlightenment, Kuhn was kind and took his responsibilities seriously as a teacher
seems like an accurate description of the worst teachers I had in college, those I truely despised. Those who couldn't care less for an enthusiastic students while enjoying the superiority feelings of teaching the weakest students.
- klyrs 8y agoYeah, this strikes me as a problematic point to gloss over. Brilliance should not excuse abusive behavior. When an academic's ego gets in the way of honest discourse, that's a fair critique. Indeed, mass-murderers are often "nice" to the people they interact with -- but when people write those stories, this is often presented as a point of confusion and regret -- and never as an excuse for the problematic behavior.
- yters 8y agoSounds like he couldn't handle people trying to shift his paradigm.