"Revolutions as Changes of World View"
Essay
By: Thomas Kuhn
Date: 1962
Source: Kuhn, Thomas S. "Revolutions as Changes of World View." In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Vol. 2 of International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, no. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Second edition, 1970, 111–12, 120–21, 122–23.
About the Author: Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University in 1949. He taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954.
Introduction
The traditional view of science is one of cumulative progress. By the steady accumulation of facts, scientists draw ever nearer to a description of reality. Science is thus progress from ignorance to ever fuller...
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