Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Author: (USA) Thomas Kuhn / Jin Wuren / Hu Xinhe
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is a classic in the Modern Thought series, exploring the nature of normal science and scientific revolutions from the perspective of the history of science. It first proposed the paradigm theory and concepts such as incommensurability, academic community, normality, and crisis, put forward the view that revolutions are shifts in worldview, profoundly revealing the structure of scientific revolutions, and pioneered a new era in the philosophy of science. The author Thomas Kuhn was called the most influential philosopher writing in English after World War II by Richard Rorty. This book is a classic in the Modern Thought series, exploring the nature of normal science and scientific revolutions from the perspective of the history of science. It first proposed the paradigm theory and concepts such as incommensurability, academic community, normality, and crisis, put forward the view that revolutions are shifts in worldview, profoundly revealing the structure of scientific revolutions, and pioneered a new era in the philosophy of science.