{"id":2296,"date":"2017-03-02T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capt.nus.edu.sg\/events-highlights\/event-template-copy"},"modified":"2019-05-26T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:03:32","slug":"in-conversation-with-dr-syed-manzoorul-islam-thomas-kuhns-the-structure-of-scientific-revolution-chaired-by-aprof-paul-macary","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/capt.nus.edu.sg\/events-highlights\/in-conversation-with-dr-syed-manzoorul-islam-thomas-kuhns-the-structure-of-scientific-revolution-chaired-by-aprof-paul-macary","title":{"rendered":"\u2018IN CONVERSATION\u2019 with Dr Syed Manzoorul Islam \u2013 \u201cThomas Kuhn\u2019s The Structure of Scientific Revolution\u201d (chaired by A\/Prof Paul MacAry)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2296\" class=\"elementor elementor-2296\" data-elementor-post-type=\"tribe_events\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-94c98f7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"94c98f7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1f37320a\" data-id=\"1f37320a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55cb0202 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55cb0202\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Syed Manzoorul Islam is Professor of English at the University of Dhaka, and an award winning fiction writer. He is also an art critic and has curated Bangladesh art exhibitions at home and abroad.\n<br\/><br\/>\nDr Islam\u2019s reading of The Structure took a more recent theoretical approach, based on ideas generated by postmodernism. He contended that The Structure, by internalizing contradictions, ambiguities and double meanings in its discursive frame gives a history of science that is pluralistic and open-ended. 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