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| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Pages: 226
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ISBN: 0226458083
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Publication Date: December 15, 1996
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 a milestone July 19, 1998
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THis book is a definitive milestone a real must also in this IT revolution's years!!!
 hmmm. not bad for one man April 22, 1998
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I think Kuhn has definitely stumbled on something important here, but his book is badly worded and difficult to process mentally. perhaps a book written on kuhn would be better.don't underestimate the power of the mind. i don't expect this to come up as a review. END
Enlightning! January 21, 1998
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Kuhn does a fantastic job outlining the chaotic backward and forward leaps involved in the advancement of the religion we call Science. Truely enlightning!
Brilliant April 25, 1997
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Kuhn, doesn't need any more appreciation (at least not from me), and there's more than enough in the other reviews, so what I'll try to provide is a brief synopsis of how the book outlines Kuhn's radical theory.In many ways, the theory is still radical, because people still want to believe that science marks progress, and moves unerringly from one theory to the next, better one. What Kuhn did, was decimate the idea that the 'progress' of science was a steady movement towards the truth, and the never articulated preconception that the "truth" itself (or if you prefer the better theory) was self-evident and would be recognized on sight.Illustrated with hilarious examples of the manner in which the most scientific of all sciences, Physics, has floundered about over the centuries, the book makes its point very forcefully. There is no science disembodied from scientists, there is no scientific theory that is not profoundly influenced by the scientific and social milieu it finds itself in. Kuhn isn't saying science is completely divorced from "reality" or "truth", the Structure of Scientific Revolutions just looks very closely at major and minor scientific "advances" of hte previous centuries and finds no evidence that suggest the dynamic of scientific progress is smooth. Kuhn was a physicist, but gave that up to work in History of Science. This book is rather compact for a text that would so radically alter its entire discipline (and many others besides), but that is probably what gives it the broad appeal it has. It's not a "difficult" book, nor is it unduly academic. It's certainly not going to be a cake-walk, Kuhn's conception is sufficiently strange to make demands on the reader (as is his language). But the entire exercise is well worth the effort. When you get through the 150 odd pages of this text, you wonder why it wasn't said before. Then you wonder whether everything we so firmly believe stands on as shaky ground. Like the man said, you must read this book.
Read it, or suffer the consequences. April 19, 1997
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Kuhn's work may be thick reading for a mind thin on science, like mine, but until you've read it, you're in the dark. Science is not what you thought it was; Kuhn tells it as it is. Read it and reap
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