The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4

by Thomas S. Kuhn, Ian Hacking
ISBN-10:
0226458121
ISBN-13:
9780226458120
Pub. Date:
04/30/2012
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226458121
ISBN-13:
9780226458120
Pub. Date:
04/30/2012
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4

by Thomas S. Kuhn, Ian Hacking
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Overview

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.

With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age.

This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context.  Newly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226458120
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 04/30/2012
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 79,590
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of 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.

Table of Contents

Introductory Essay by Ian Hacking

Preface 

I. Introduction: A Role for History

II. The Route to Normal Science 

III. The Nature of Normal Science 

IV. Normal Science as Puzzle-solving 

V. The Priority of Paradigms 

VI. Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Revolutions 

VII. Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories 

VIII. The Response to Crisis 

IX. The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions 

X. Revolutions as Changes of World View 

XI. The Invisibility of Revolutions 

XII. The Resolution of Revolutions 

XIII. Progress through Revolutions 

Postscript-1969 

Index
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