Full Idea
Many myths about the lonely scientific genius underwrite epistemological individualism.
Gist of Idea
Myths about lonely genius are based on epistemological individualism
Source
Martin Kusch (Knowledge by Agreement [2002], Ch. 5)
Book Reference
Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.50
A Reaction
They all actually say that they 'stood on the shoulders of giants', and they are invariably immersed in the contemporary researches of teams of like-minded people. How surprised were the really expert contemporaries by Newton, Einstein, Gödel?