Author | : Robert J. Richards |
File Size | : 49,6 Mb |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 25 March 2016 |
ISBN | : 9780226317205 |
Pages | : 211 pages |
Kuhn s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty by Robert J. Richards Book PDF Summary
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.