The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1970
Genre: Historia de la fisica
ISBN: 9780226458038

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty
Author: Robert J. Richards
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022631717X

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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. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn’s work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions itself marks no less of a paradigm shift than those it describes. In Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” at Fifty, leading social scientists and philosophers explore the origins of Kuhn’s masterwork and its legacy fifty years on. These essays exhume important historical context for Kuhn’s work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and Kuhn’s own intellectual biography: his experiences as a physics graduate student, his close relationship with psychologists before and after the publication of Structure, and the Cold War framework of terms such as “world view” and “paradigm.”

Kuhn's Intellectual Path

Kuhn's Intellectual Path
Author: K. Brad Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316512177

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Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
Author: William J. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319133837

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In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.

Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'

Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'
Author: John Preston
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2008-06-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 144119889X

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Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is arguably one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a key text in the philosophy and history of science. Kuhn transformed the philosophy and history of science in the twentieth century in an irrevocable way and still provides an important alternative to formalist approaches in the philosophy of science. In Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions': A Reader's Guide, John Preston offers a clear and thorough account of this key philosophical work. The book offers a detailed review of the key themes and a lucid commentary that will enable readers to rapidly navigate the text. The guide explores the complex and important ideas inherent in the text and provides a cogent survey of the reception and influence of Kuhn's work.

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
Author: Vasso Kindi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1136243208

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The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the time of the Structure’s publication. There has been extensive research on all of the major issues concerning the development of science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a number of topics relevant to Structure’s concerns, such as the nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the Structure’s significance in the canon of philosophy of science.

Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions

Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions
Author: Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1993-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226355519

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Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their own theories, however imperfectly. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work. Bibliography.