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The structure of scientific revolutions /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1986Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 172 p. hard coverISBN:
  • 9780226458113 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 0226458113 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226458120 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 0226458121 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 KUH
Contents:
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.
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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.

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