Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty
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Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

Reflections on a Science Classic

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Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

Reflections on a Science Classic

About this book

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. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn's work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions itself marks no less of a paradigm shift than those it describes.
           
In Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty, leading social scientists and philosophers explore the origins of Kuhn's masterwork and its legacy fifty years on. These essays exhume important historical context for Kuhn's work, critically analyzing its foundations in twentieth-century science, politics, and Kuhn's own intellectual biography: his experiences as a physics graduate student, his close relationship with psychologists before and after the publication of Structure, and the Cold War framework of terms such as "world view" and "paradigm."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. ONE / Aristotle in the Cold War: On the Origins of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  7. TWO / A Smoker’s Paradigm
  8. THREE / Practice All the Way Down
  9. FOUR / Thomas Kuhn and the Psychology of Scientific Revolutions
  10. FIVE / Paradigms
  11. SIX / History of Science without Structure
  12. SEVEN / Why the Scientific Revolution Wasn’t a Scientific Revolution, and Why It Matters
  13. EIGHT / Paradigms and Exemplars Meet Biomedicine
  14. NINE / Structure as Cited, Structure as Read
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index