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Author Kuhn, Thomas S.
Title The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn ; with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking.
Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2012.
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Edition Fourth edition.
Description xlvi, 217 p. ; 22 cm.
Note "50th Anniversary edition"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A role for history -- The route to normal science -- The nature of normal science -- Normal science as puzzle-solving -- The priority of paradigms -- Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries -- Crisis and the emergence of scientific theories -- The response to crisis -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions -- Revolutions as changes of world view -- The invisibility of revolutions -- The resolution of revolutions -- Progress through revolutions.
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- History.
Added Author Hacking, Ian, author of introduction.
ISBN 9780226458113 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226458113 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226458120 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226458121 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226458148 (e-book)
9780226458144 (e-book)


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