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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd Edition)

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Condition:
Good/Acceptable: Minimal/limited shelf wear to front/back cover; roughly 5% of the book contains minimal, sparse highlighting and underlining; wavy texture to the bottom right-hand corners of the pages (roughly 73% of the book) probably due to mois
Format:
Paperback, 212 pages
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press, 1996
Edition:
Third Edition, Sixth Printing

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.

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. Although 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.

Considered one of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War" by Times Literary Supplement, Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with an index.

Editorial Reviews

"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 series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." --Nicholas Wade, Science

"Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." --William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review

"Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience....Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions...has clearly emerged as just such a work." --Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement

"Among the most influential academic books in this century." -- Choice

About the Author

Thomas S. Kuhn was the Laurence Rockefeller Professor Emeritus 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.