The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of …
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress, which Kuhn referred to as periods of "normal science", were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The discovery of "anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms. New paradigms then ask new questions of old data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving" of the previous paradigm, change the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research.For example, Kuhn's analysis of the Copernican Revolution emphasized that, in its beginning, it did not offer more accurate predictions of celestial events, such as planetary positions, than the Ptolemaic system, but instead appealed to some practitioners based on a promise of better, simpler solutions that might be developed at some point in the future. Kuhn called the core concepts of an ascendant revolution its "paradigms" and thereby launched this word into widespread analogical use in the second half of the 20th century. Kuhn's insistence that a paradigm shift was a mélange of sociology, enthusiasm and scientific promise, but not a logically determinate procedure, caused an uproar in reaction to his work. Kuhn addressed concerns in the 1969 postscript to the second edition. For some commentators The Structure of Scientific Revolutions introduced a realistic humanism into the core of science, while for others the nobility of science was tarnished by Kuhn's introduction of an irrational element into the heart of its greatest achievements.
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Suhrkamp Taschenbücher Wissenschaft, Nr.25, Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen
Paperback, 238 pages
German language
Published Jan. 1, 2002 by Suhrkamp.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
210 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 1976 by University of Chicago Press.
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- 150771
La structure des révolutions scientifiques
Mass Market Paperback, 284 pages
French language
Published Jan. 1, 1989 by Flammarion.
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- 978-2-08-081115-8Copied ISBN!
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
210 pages
English language
Published July 14, 1970 by University of Chicago Press.
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Estructura de Las Revoluciones Cientificas
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Jan. 7, 1993 by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA.
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- 978-950-557-113-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 492124204
Estructura de Las Revoluciones Cientificas
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Sept. 7, 1995 by Fondo De Cultura Economica USA.
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- 978-968-16-0443-1Copied ISBN!
The structure of scientific revolutions
212 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 1996 by University of Chicago Press.
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- 978-0-226-45807-6Copied ISBN!
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The structure of scientific revolutions
212 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 1996 by University of Chicago Press.
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The structure of scientific revolutions
217 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2012 by The University of Chicago Press.
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- 978-0-226-45811-3Copied ISBN!
The structure of scientific revolutions
210 pages
English language
Published May 3, 1995 by University of Chicago Press.
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The structure of scientific revolution
210 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 1970
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- 818009477
Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen
238 pages
German language
Published Feb. 20, 2001 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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- 978-3-518-27625-9Copied ISBN!
La estructura de las revoluciones científicas
319 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 7, 1981
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- 978-84-375-0046-1Copied ISBN!
La estructura de las revoluciones científicas
361 pages
Spanish language
Published 2006
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- 978-968-16-7599-8Copied ISBN!
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La structure des révolutions scientifiques
French language
Published Nov. 7, 2018 by Flammarion.
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