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The structure of scientific revolutions /

by Kuhn, Thomas S; Hacking, Ian.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press; c2012Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xlvi, 217 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780226458120 (paperback : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Science -- History
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.