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Thomas Kuhn
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ISBN: 1902683110 1902683102 9781902683119 Year: 2000 Volume: *3 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University press,


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Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions - 50 years on
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ISBN: 9783319133829 9783319133836 9783319133843 9783319377209 Year: 2015 Publisher: Heidelberg New York Springer

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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.


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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at fifty
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ISBN: 9780226317205 022631720X 9780226317038 022631703X 9780226317175 022631717X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago

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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."


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I modelli l'invenzione e la conferma : saggio su Keplero, la rivoluzione copernicana e la "new philosophy of science"
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ISBN: 8820434539 Year: 1990 Volume: 33 Publisher: Milano Franco Angeli

Beyond Kuhn : scientific explanation, theory structure, incommensurability and physical necessity
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ISBN: 0754653471 9780754653479 Year: 2006 Volume: *9

Kuhn : philosopher of scientific revolution
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ISBN: 0745619290 0745619282 9780745619293 9780745619286 Year: 2002 Volume: *14 Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press

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Paradigms and barriers : how habits of mind govern scientific beliefs.
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ISBN: 0226505235 Year: 1993 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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De verkeerde wereld : opstellen over Illich, Commoner, Toffler, Kuhn & Feyerabend, Althusser
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ISBN: 9033411628 Year: 1985 Publisher: Leuven Acco


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