Research Catalog

Title

The structure of scientific revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn.

Author

Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996.

Publication

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970]

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Details

Description

xii, 210 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International encyclopedia of unified science. Foundations of the unity of science, v. 2, no. 2

Uniform Title

International encyclopedia of unified science ; v. 2, no. 2.

Subjects

• Science > Philosophy
• Science > History

Note

• "Volumes I and II. Foundations of the unity of science."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: A role for history -- The route to normal science -- The nature of normal science -- Normal science as puzzle-solving -- The priority of paradigms -- Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries -- Crisis and the emergence of scientific theories -- The response to crisis -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions -- Revolutions as changes of world view -- The invisibility of revolutions -- The resolution of revolutions -- Progress through revolutions.

Call Number

OAP (Kuhn, T. S. Structure of scientific revolutions. 1970)

ISBN

• 0226458032
• 0226458040 (pbk.)

LCCN

70107472

OCLC

93075

Author

Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996.

Title

The structure of scientific revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn.

Imprint

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970]

Edition

[2d ed., enl.

Series

International encyclopedia of unified science. Foundations of the unity of science, v. 2, no. 2

International encyclopedia of unified science ; v. 2, no. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

OAP (Kuhn, T. S. Structure of scientific revolutions. 1970)