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The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn ; with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking.

By: Kuhn, Thomas S.
Contributor(s): Hacking, Ian.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2012Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xlvi, 217 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0226458113 (cloth : alkaline paper); 0226458121 (paperback : alkaline paper); 9780226458120 (cloth : alkaline paper); 9780226458120 (paperback : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Science -- History | Science -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 501
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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