Kuhn’s most controversial ideas relate to how paradigms change. Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen This year marks the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Thomas Kuhn’s famous book, The ...

William Whitlow replies to a reader’s inquiry about sociologist Thomas S. Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Dear William Whitlow, As a regular reader of the WSWS, I read your ...

On the impact of Kuhn’s 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Interest in Kuhn’s book has not waned. The Index is now online, and records one-hundred citations to the book for 1999—plus ...

According to Thomas Kuhn, the scientific progress of any discipline could be distinguished by a pre-paradigm phase, a normal science phase and a revolution phase. The science advances when a ...

“Great books are rare. This is one. Read it and you will see.” The introductory essay is written by the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, who explores how Kuhn’s ideas have changed our view of the ...

STRUCTURE and revolution are rightly up front in the title of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He was convinced that not only are there scientific revolutions but also that they ...

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Scientific American's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which ...

Getting stuck, not being able to think out of the box, being politically blocked, playing it too safe, and getting trapped by groupthink are common challenges for those who lead. These obstacles don’t ...

A theory of meaning Editor Bojana Mladenovic brings us the posthumous final work of science philosopher Thomas S Kuhn. (Courtesy: iStock/Jackie Niam) A famous example of such a revolution is the ...

Medieval Europe’s astronomy was defined by Greco-Roman scholar Ptolemy, who thought the sun and planets orbited Earth. But he could see that simple orbits could not account for the movements of Mars, ...

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