| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780226458083 | | Publisher: University of Chicago Press | | Publish Date: 11/1/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 30030881 | | Item#: RVP3SX | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T |
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| | | Now available with a new Index, Kuhn's classic book offers "a landmark intelleectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field (Nicholas Wade, Science). "Perhaps the best explanation of (the) process of discovery".--William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review.
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A historian of science shows how major breakthroughs in the field have occurred. Kuhn's book became popular outside the field of science, and generated much discussion around his use of the word "paradigm."
| PraiseNew Republic
"To its author's and everyone else's surprise, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' proved to be the most influential English-language philosophy book of the last half-century. It sold the most copies, made the greatest difference to our ways of thinking, and was the subject of the most intense and complex debate. Kuhn's book marked the beginning of the end of logical empiricism." - Richard Rorty 07/31/1995Wired
"...I really believe in Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of the Scientific Revolution'. When you are at a paradigmatic moment, one of the jobs of leadership at my level is to get into a vision of the next cycle." - Newt Gingrich August 1995 Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
"Kuhn's core idea offers us a mental model of science as a culture, a community of discourse in which research is structured according to what is already widely agreed to be known about the world....This book should be required reading for scientists-in-training....It's also a good way to understand how the world is like a story." - Howard L. Rheingold |
| Author Bio| Thomas S. Kuhn | | Thomas Samuel Kuhn graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1943. During World War II, he served as a civilian employee at Harvard and in Europe with the Office of Scientific Research and Development. He received a master's and a doctoral degree in physics from Harvard in 1946 and 1949. From 1948 to 1956, he held various posts at Harvard, rising to an assistant professorship in general education and the history of science. He than joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was named professor of history of science in 1961. In 1964, he joined the faculty at Princeton, where he was the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science until 1979, when he joined the faculty of M.I.T. Professor Kuhn was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954-55, the winner of the George Sarton Medal in the History of Science in 1982, and the holder of honorary degrees from many institutions, among them the University of Notre Dame, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Padua and the University of Athens. |
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