The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1996.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiv, 212 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0226458075 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226458083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226458083
- 501 20
- Q175 .K95 1996
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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 One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement
Includes bibliographical references and index.