描述
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. It's written with a combination of depth & clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. Its author, Th S. Kuhn, wastes little time on demolishing the logical empiricist view of science as an objective progression toward the truth. Instead he erects from ground up a structure in which science is seen to be heavily influenced by nonrational procedures, & in which new theories are viewed as being more complex than those they usurp but not as standing any closer to the truth. Science isn't the steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge that is portrayed in the textbooks. Rather, it's a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions in each of which one conceptual world view is replaced by another.
Preface
Introduction: A role for history
The route to normal science
The nature of normal science
Normal science as puzzle-solving
The priority of paradigms
Anomaly & the emergence of scientific discoveries
Crisis & the emergence of scientific theories
The response to crisis
The nature & necessity of scientific revolutions
Revolutions as changes of world view
The invisibility of revolutions
The resolution of revolutions
Progress through revolutions
Postscript: 1969
Preface
Introduction: A role for history
The route to normal science
The nature of normal science
Normal science as puzzle-solving
The priority of paradigms
Anomaly & the emergence of scientific discoveries
Crisis & the emergence of scientific theories
The response to crisis
The nature & necessity of scientific revolutions
Revolutions as changes of world view
The invisibility of revolutions
The resolution of revolutions
Progress through revolutions
Postscript: 1969