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Science advances by revolutions, not steady fact-gathering
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions shows how shared research frameworks hold for long stretches, then break under anomalies and get replaced rather than simply refined.
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About Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Everything about Thomas Kuhn →- Occupation
- physicist, historian of science, philosopher of science, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 18, 1922
- Died
- June 17, 1996