Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science

by James A. Marcum

Book Overview

The influence of Thomas Kuhn (1922 -1996) on the history and philosophy of science has been truly enormous. In 1962, Kuhn's famous work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, helped to inaugurate a revolution - the historiographic revolution - in the latter half of the twentieth century, providing a new understanding of science in which 'paradigm shifts' (scientific revolutions) are punctuated with periods of stasis (normal science). Kuhn's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826434460
• ISBN13: 9780826434463
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"