Thomas Kuhn (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Steve Fuller
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History of science, philosophy, sociology
- Time of Work: 1922-1996
- Setting: United States and Western Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sociology
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Revolutions, Science or scientists, 1940’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, Social sciences, Natural history
- Locales: Europe, United States
When Thomas S. Kuhn died on July 18, 1996, obituaries appearing in many academic as well as popular publications praised the work of this physicist, historian, and philosopher as providing the twentieth century’s most penetrating analysis of scientific development. His influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) sold, in its English edition, more than a million copies, and its ideas spread via twenty-five translations to countries around the world. Such Kuhnian terms as “paradigm shift,” which encapsulated his view of scientific revolutions, became...
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