Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions at fifty
An edition of Kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions at fifty (2016)
Reflections on a Science Classic
By Robert J. Richards,Lorraine Daston
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
205
Description:
Thomas S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the 'paradigm shift,' social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. The essays in this book exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics and Kuhn's own intellectual biography.