The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Kuhn, Thomas S.

ISBN 10: 0226458040 / ISBN 13: 9780226458045

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1970

Beschreibung

Clean, sturdy paperback. Some reading creases to spine and cover. Some annotation and underlining of passages. WF.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers D9866

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1970
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0226458040
• ISBN-13: 9780226458045
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 2nd.
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science

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Inhaltsangabe

xiii 210p blue paperback, nice clean copy, Second Edition, Enlarged

Reseña del editor

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. Its author, Thomas S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demolishing the logical empiricist view of science as an objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procedures, and in which new theories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. Science is not the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions . . . in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by another.