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Author: Thomas S. Kuhn ,
Ian Hacking
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Edition: 50th anniversary ed
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.456kg
ISBN: 9780226458113
ISBN 10: 0226458113
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 April 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
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
"""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"""
Author Information
Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) was the Laurence Rockefeller Professor 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.
