1. My first systematic and extended presentation of these views is B. Barnes, Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, London, 1974.
2. Ibid. See also B. Barnes, ‘Natural Rationality: a Neglected Concept in the Social Sciences’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 6, no. 2, June 1976, pp. 115–26.
3. G. Gutting, (ed.), Paradigms and Revolutions: Appraisals and Applications of Thomas Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame, 1980, pp. 9–12; quotation, p. 10.
4. A parallel misreading is to be found in N. Roll-Hansen, ‘The Controversy between Biometricians and Mendelians’, Social Science Information, vol. 19, 1980, pp. 501–517;
5. and a rebuttal of this is in B. Barnes, ‘On the Causal Explanation of Scientific Judgment’, Social Science Information, vol. 19, 1980, pp. 685–95.