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Author Kuhn, Thomas S.

Title The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.

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Edition 2nd ed., enl.
Description xii, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Series International encyclopedia of unified science. Foundations of the unity of science, v. 2, no. 2
International encyclopedia of unified science, v. 2, no. 2
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- History.
ISBN 0226458032
9780226458038
0226458040 (pbk.)
9780226458045 (pbk.)

 
    
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