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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Foundations of Unity of Science - Second edition, Enlarged

Door Thomas S. Kuhn

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#342641-ZA28
Titel
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Foundations of Unity of Science - Second edition, Enlarged
Auteur
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Chicago/London : University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave
1970
ISBN10
0226458040
ISBN13
9780226458045
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous equations and diagrams, 8vo.
Samenvatting

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a book about the history of science by philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of scientific knowledge and triggered an ongoing worldwide assessment and reaction in—and beyond—those scholarly communities. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in "normal science". Normal scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of such conceptual continuity in normal science were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The discovery of "anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms. New paradigms then ask new q
... (Lees verder)uestions of old data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving" of the previous paradigm, change the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research.
Pagina's
210
Conditie
Goed — Name in pen on title page.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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