The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (German title: The structure of scientific revolutions ) is a work written by Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996) and is considered a milestone in the history of science and philosophy of science . The book popularized terms such as paradigm and paradigm shift .
The work was first published as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science . The first edition of the book was published in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press .
In 1969, Kuhn responded to reviews of the first edition with a postscript. The third edition appeared in 1996, the fourth in 2012.
In 1977 Kuhn published further essays on the subject of "The Origin of the New".
Kuhn said he had important insights into the work in 1947 when he was a student at Harvard University .
expenditure
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (= International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Volume 2, No. 2). University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1962; 6th edition 1966.
- 2. A. 1970, ISBN 0-226-45803-2
- 3rd A. 1996, ISBN 0-226-45808-3
- 4th A. 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-45811-3
Thomas S. Kuhn (author), Kurt Simon (translator), Hermann Vetter (translator): The structure of scientific revolutions
- First edition: Suhrkamp (Theory, Group 2), Frankfurt am Main 1967
- 1st edition in the series Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft (stw Volume 25), Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-07625-6
- 24th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-27625-9
literature
- Paul Hoyningen-Huene : The philosophy of science Thomas S. Kuhns. Reconstruction and basic problems . Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1989 ( Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science . University of Chicago Press, 1993). Download, Book No. 3 .
Footnotes
- ↑ P. 174-210 (pdf, online)
- ^ The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change . ( ISBN 0-226-45806-7 )
- ↑ Noel Swerdlow (2013): Biographical Memories (pdf), p. 4