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2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Wikipedia

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   The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history , philosophy , and sociology of science .

3. Thomas Kuhn - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/ k uː n /; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

4. Normal science - Wikipedia

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   Normal science, identified and elaborated on by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, [1] is the regular work of scientists theorizing, observing, and experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework. [2]

5. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Kuhn's 1962 work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions emphasizes that different theoretical frameworks—such as Einstein's theory of relativity and Newton's theory of gravity, which it replaced—cannot be directly compared without meaning loss.

6. Paradigm shift - Wikipedia

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   Kuhn presented his notion of a paradigm shift in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn contrasts paradigm shifts, which characterize a Scientific Revolution, to the activity of normal science, which he describes as scientific work done within a prevailing framework or paradigm. Paradigm shifts arise when the ...

7. Kuhn–Popper debate - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) was born into a world of technological and scientific advancement. Working as a historian and philosopher of science at MIT, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, proposing a theory for classifying generational knowledge under frameworks known as paradigms. [2]

8. The Copernican Revolution (book) - Wikipedia

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   Kuhn would later develop his theory regarding the development of science in his later work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” [6] which was originally published in 1962 and remains his best known work. In this work, he focuses on a one particular example; namely the Copernican Revolution, which is a paradigmatic example of such a ...

9. Norwood Russell Hanson - Wikipedia

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   Hanson's 1958 work Patterns of Discovery was followed by Thomas Kuhn in Kuhn's 1962 landmark, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, that challenged prevailing conceptions of science's development, conceptions that ranged from the strictures of logical empiricism to naive presumptions of objective scientific realism.