Thomas S. Kuhn

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

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Gavin

There's an excellent and useful model of science in here, but it's wrapped in two massive dreadful epistemological cockups (incommensurability and ontological relativism).

Lasse

Timeo Williams

The structure of scientific revolutions

Lindy

Carmen Maria

Maurice FitzGerald

Dr Seth Jones

Dan Yoder

Mher Alaverdyan

Dimitris Papastergiou

Erhan Bilici

David McDonagh

Drew Spartz

Clare B

Jonathan Grunert

Cal Desmond‐Pearson

Roel Vandenhoeck

An analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and paradigm shift.

Mehmet Ali Ertürk

Marisa Petri

Mundy Otto Reimer

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach. With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. 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 our biotech age. This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science 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. Newly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.

50th Anniversary Edition

Andrew Ireland

Alexandra

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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