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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International encyclopedia of unified science ; v. 2, no. 2Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 210 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226458032
  • 9780226458038
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Structure of scientific revolutions.DDC classification:
  • 501
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.
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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.

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.

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