The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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The Structure of Scientif ic Révolutions
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Thomas S. Kuhn
"The Structure of Scientific Révolutions is 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 sériés of aphorisms. Its author, Thomas S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demoljshing the logical empiricist view of science as ein objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procédures, and in which new théories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. . Science is not the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it is a sériés of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent révolutions in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by... Tovább

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The Structure of Scientif ic Révolutions
Second Edition, Enlarged
Thomas S. Kuhn
"The Structure of Scientific Révolutions is 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 sériés of aphorisms. Its author, Thomas S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demoljshing the logical empiricist view of science as ein objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procédures, and in which new théories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. . Science is not the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it is a sériés of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent révolutions in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by another
"Since Kuhn does. not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claimhis own theory to be true. But if causing a révolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, The Structure of Scientific . Révolutions has been a resounding success."—Nicholas Wade, Science
"Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Révolutions,. has now clearly emerged as just such a work."—Ron Johnston,. Times Higher Education Supplément Thomas S. Kuhn te currently professer of Philosophy and History of Science at the Massachusetts Ihstitute of v Technology. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University. He is the author ôf The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, published by the University of Chicago Press, The Copernican Révolution: Planetary Astronomy and the Development of Western Thought, and Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. *
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