The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions


Yazar Thomas S Kuhn
Yayınevi University Of Chicago Press
ISBN 9780226458083
Baskı yılı 1996
Sayfa sayısı 226
Ağırlık 0.22 kg
Edisyon 1
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Thomas S. Kuhns 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 Kuhns "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".
Preface
I Introduction: A Role for History 1
II The Route to Normal Science 10
III The Nature of Normal Science 23
IV Normal Science as Puzzle-solving 35
V The Priority of Paradigms 43
VI Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries 52
VII Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories 66
VIII The Response to Crisis 77
IX The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions 92
X Revolutions as Changes of World View 111
XI The Invisibility of Revolutions 136
XII The Resolutions of Revolutions 144
XIII Progress through Revolutions 160
Postscript-1969 174
Index 211