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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas S Kuhn |
ISBN: | 9780226458113 0226458113 9780226458120 0226458121 |
OCLC Number: | 921816821 |
Notes: | På omslaget: 50th anniversary edition Indhold: Introductory essay / by Ian Hacking. Preface. Introduction: a role for history. The route to normal science. The nature of normal science. Normal science as puzzle-solving. The priority of paradigms. Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries. Crisis and the emergence of scientific theories. The response to crisis. The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions. Revolutions as changes of world view. The invisibility of revolutions. The resolution of revolutions. Progress through revolutions. Postscript-1969 |
Description: | xlvi, 217 s |
Responsibility: | Thomas S. Kuhn ; with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking |
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"Thomas S. Kuhn didn't invent the phrase paradigm shift, but he popularized it and gave it the meaning it has today. He also triggered one when he published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962.... After Kuhn, we can no longer ignore the fact that however powerful science is, it's as flawed as the scientists who do it." -Time, All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books "Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience.... Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.... has clearly emerged as just such a work." -Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement "The book really did change 'the image of science by which we are now possessed.' Forever." -Ian Hacking, from the Introduction "Perhaps the best explanation of the process of discovery." -William Irwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field.... If causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, Structure has been a resounding success." -Nicholas Wade, Science "Among the most influential academic books in this century." -Choice" Read more...

