The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Synopsis

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were—and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.

With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age.

Chosen for Mark Zuckerberg's "A Year of Books"

Copyright:

1996

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

212 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780226458120

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Date of Addition:

11/08/15

Copyrighted By:

University of Chicago

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Science, Philosophy

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.