"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."â€”John Gribbin, New Scientist "Every scientist should have this book."â€”Paul Davies, New Scientist

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

Science & Math

Kuhn, Thomas S.

Physics

Oxford University Press

Thomas Kuhn will undoubtedly be remembered primarily for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a book that introduced one of the most influential conceptions of scientific progress to emerge during the twentieth century. The Road Since Structure, assembled with Kuhn's input before his death in 1996, follows the development of his thought through the later years of his life: collected here are several essays extending and rethinking the perspectives of Structure as well as an extensive, fascinating autobiographical interview in which Kuhn discusses the course of his life and philosophy.

The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

History & Philosophy

"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."—John Gribbin, New Scientist "Every scientist should have this book."—Paul Davies, New Scientist

History

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.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vol. 2, No. 2)

1970 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Second Edition, Enlarged (P) by Thomas S. Kuhn ***ISBN-13: 9780226458045 ***210 Pages

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Univ of Chicago Pr (T)

"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."â€”Sir Peter Medawar, Nature

The essential tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change

"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature

The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

"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. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." —Nicholas Wade, Science "Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." —William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review "Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . . . Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work." —Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Among the most influential academic books in this century." —Choice One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement

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Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vol. 2, No. 2)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The essential tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change

The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions