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Summary:

This new edition of Kuhn's work in the history of science includes an introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn's ideas to the science of today. Keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking's introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context. Newly designed, with an expanded index.

Table of Contents:

• Introductory essay / by Ian Hacking
• 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.

Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Hacking, Ian

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The structure of scientific revolutions [by Kuhn, T.S.]

Subjects:

Science — Philosophy

Science — History

Science

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 217 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

Q175 .K95 2012

ISBNs:

9780226458113 (cloth, alkaline paper)
0226458113 (cloth, alkaline paper)
9780226458120 (paperback, alkaline paper)
0226458121 (paperback, alkaline paper)
0226458148 (e-book) [Invalid]
9780226458144 (e-book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011042476

OCLC Numbers:

1011615668
756577696 [Invalid]