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Narrated by:
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Dennis Holland
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By:
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Thomas S. Kuhn
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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.
With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of "normal science", as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age.
Note: This new edition of Kuhn's essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn's ideas to the science of today.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-2024
An essential read for scientists and laymen alike
First off, this text is one of the most digestible philosophic texts that I have ever experienced. I have no scientific background but I am interested in science and I didn't feel lost at any point.
Khun presents a seemingly well-founded interpretation of science history that does not critique the scientific community so much as lay bare the natural order of science.
If you have any interest in science whatsoever, you can't go past this.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-06-2018
Intriguing, an important first step...
Any new idea will have it's detractors. The first step of a greater understanding begins with a revolutionary view as it pertains to older concepts, less suited to a display of how the world really is. It is then somewhat ironic, or perhaps intentional, that this work both describes and is a part of a process that seeks to fundamentally transform the nature of understanding. Maybe I don't agree with every point made and maybe neither will you, but I beseech you to consider what is contained in here as a fundamental first step on seeing science, not simply as a Popperian progression of falsifiability, but as a consideration of the real and historical activity of science and it's philosophy.
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- P
- 21-08-2018
Tough to follow but interesting content
Very interesting view on the scientific revolutions and paradigms. I found it a little wordy at times and therefore a little hard to follow but overall I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in science and philosophy.
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- chris
- 22-07-2019
meh
Holds all scientists to a standard of scrutiny except for einstein, unfortunately that opportunity has been missed here and sets a bad precedent.
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- Daniel
- 22-11-2024
Utterly inaccessible
I've never read anything as impossibly dense. The language and sentence structure made this so arcane as to render it meaningless. No one would speak like this so why would one write this way?
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