The structure of scientific revolutions
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press 2012Edition: Fourth edition, 50th anniversary edDescription: XXXVII, 217 SISBN: 0226458113; 0226458121; 9780226458113; 9780226458120Subject(s): Science -- History | Science -- Philosophy | Science | Science -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 501 LOC classification: Q175Other classification: 02.02 | 70.03Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introductory essay / by Ian Hacking -- Preface -- Introduction: 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 -- Postscript-1969.