Question: In what year was the author of "Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science" born?

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Samuel G. Freedman: Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  He has authored six nonfiction books, including "Who She Was: A Son's Search for His Mother's Life", a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and "Letters to a Young Journalist".  Freedman has also won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000 in the Non-Fiction category for "Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry", and his book "The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond" was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize.  Additionally, he currently writes "The New York Times" column "On Religion" and formerly wrote "The Jerusalem Post" column "In the Diaspora."  His latest book, "Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights", was published in New York, in August 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

Steve Fuller (sociologist): Steve William Fuller (born 12 July 1959) is an American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.  He has published in the areas of social epistemology, academic freedom, and the subjects of intelligent design and transhumanism.

Adolf Grünbaum: Adolf Grünbaum (born May 15, 1923, Cologne, Germany) is a philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis.  He is also well known as a critic of Karl Popper's philosophy of science.  He became the first Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1960, where he continues to teach and is Co-Chairman of its Center for Philosophy of Science (since 1978), Research Professor of Psychiatry (since 1979), and Primary Research Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (since 2006).

Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944) is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker.  He has a doctorate in brain research and is the author and editor of over 25 books.  He is a long-time adviser to China's leaders and the Chinese government, to multinational corporations on China strategies and transactions, and is a frequent commentator on China politics, economics, business, finance, philosophy and science.  He is a columnist for "China Daily" and "South China Morning Post" and appears on the "BBC", "CNN", "China Central Television", "Bloomberg" and other major media.  Kuhn is the creator and host of the "CCTV News" show "Closer to China with R.L.Kuhn".  Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of the public television series "Closer to Truth", which presents scientists and philosophers discussing fundamental issues (cosmos, consciousness, philosophy/religion).  His essays are featured on "LiveScience.com" and "Space.com".

David Stove: David Charles Stove (15 September 1927 – 2 June 1994), was an Australian philosopher.  His work in philosophy of science included criticisms of David Hume's Inductive scepticism, as well as what he regarded as the irrationalism of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend.  He offered a positive response to the problem of induction in his 1986 work, "The Rationality of Induction".  Stove was also a critic of Idealism and sociobiology, describing the latter as a new religion in which genes play the role of gods.

Jimmy Kuhn: James Edward Kuhn (born October 31, 1946) is a member of the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal First Circuit.  Kuhn lives in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and oversees the third district.  He began his second term in 2005.  His current 10-year term ends on December 31, 2014.

Frank Popper: Frank Popper (born April 17, 1918) is a historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.  He has been decorated with the medal of the Légion d'honneur by the French Government.  He is author of the books: "Origins and Development of Kinetic Art", "Art, Action, and Participation", "Art of the Electronic Age" and "From Technological to Virtual Art".

Dario Antiseri: Dario Antiseri (born 1940 in Foligno) is a Philosophy professor.  He holds a bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Philosophy from the University of Perugia and for many years he has been Full Professor of Methodology of the Social Sciences at LUISS, in Rome.  He taught in Siena, Padova and Rome, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science.  He retired from academia in 2010.  He is an important scholar of Karl R. Popper and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and in many works he tries to show the links between fallibilism and hermeneutics.  In 1996 he published a book about Gianni Vattimo's "weak thought".  With the Italian philosopher Giovanni Reale he is also author of an important treatise of philosophy in three volumes, which is the most widely used philosophy textbook in Italian schools.

Kuhn vs. Popper: Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science is a 2003 book by sociologist Steve Fuller, in which the author discusses and criticizes the philosophers of science Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper.  The book, published by Columbia University Press, received several negative reviews, but was also made Book of the Month by "Popular Science" magazine.

Research program: A research program (UK: research programme) is a professional network of scientists conducting basic research.  The term was used by philosopher of science Imre Lakatos to blend and revise the normative model of science offered by Karl Popper's "falsificationism" and the descriptive model of science offered by Thomas Kuhn's "normal science".  Lakatos found falsificationism impractical and often not practiced, and found normal science—where a "paradigm of science", mimicking an "exemplar", extinguishes differing perspectives—more monopolistic than actual.

Supporting paragraphs: Kuhn vs. Popper Steve Fuller (sociologist)
Answer: 1959