The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-04-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226458144

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“One of the most influential books of the 20th century,” the landmark study in the history of science with a new introduction by philosopher Ian Hacking (Guardian, UK). First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ”reshaped our understanding of the scientific enterprise and human inquiry in general.” In it, he challenged long-standing assumptions about scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but instead occur outside of “normal science.” Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in today’s biotech age (Science). This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including “paradigm” and “incommensurability,” and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. This newly designed edition also includes an expanded and updated index.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226458083

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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn,Michel Foucault
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 7500426526

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1970
Genre: Historia de la fisica
ISBN: 0226458032

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publsiher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1969
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:312972800

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1970
Genre: Science
ISBN: UOM:39015000148356

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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." --Nicholas Wade, Science "Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." --William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review "Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . . . Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work." --Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Among the most influential academic books in this century." -- Choice --One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement Thomas S. Kuhn was the Laurence Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution.

International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
Author: Otto Neurath
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1944
Genre: Science
ISBN: UIUC:30112039486011

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Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty

Kuhn s  Structure of Scientific Revolutions  at Fifty
Author: Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226317205

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Thomas S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the 'paradigm shift,' social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. The essays in this book exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics and Kuhn's own intellectual biography.