The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Now available with a new Index, Kuhn’s classic book offers “a landmark intelleectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field (Nicholas Wade, Science). “Perhaps the best explanation of (the) administer of discovery.”–William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review.Amazon.com Review
There’s a “Frank & Ernest” comic strip showing a chick breaking out of its shell, looking nearly, and saying, “Oh, wow! Paradigm budge!” Blame the late Thomas Kuhn. Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into the amusing papers, but Kuhn is one.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is indeed a paradigmatic work in the history of science. Kuhn’s use of terms such as “paradigm budge” and “normal science,” his thoughts of how scientists go from disdain through doubt to acceptance of a new theory, his stress on social and psychological factors in science–all have had profound effects on historians, scientists, philosophers, critics, writers, business gurus, and even the cartoonist in the street.
Some scientists (such as Steven Weinberg and Ernst Mayr) are profoundly irritated by Kuhn, especially by the doubts he casts–or the way his work has been used to cast doubt–on the thought of scientific progress. Yet it has been said that the acceptance of plate tectonics in the 1960s, for instance, was sped by geologists’ reluctance to be on the downside of a paradigm budge. Even Weinberg has said that “Structure has had a wider influence than any other book on the history of science.” As one of Kuhn’s obituaries noted, “We all live in a post-Kuhnian age.” –Mary Ellen Curtin
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The style of the text does not flow from sentence to sentence or from paragraph to paragraph.
In one sentence the author will mention Newton, Alton and Einstein with technical references which baffels the reader.
With the disjunct manner in which it is written it is a wonder that any reader can retain any knowledge from this book.
When I read most books I reflect during the day as to whether a book has any relevence to me. This is one book I seldom plotting about the next day. This is too terrible because the title is very intriguing.
Rating: 1 / 5
IF YOU CANNOT GET BEYOND THE FIRST FEW BORING CHAPTERS SKIP TO IX. HERE KUHN MAKES THE OBSERVATION THAT IF ONE AVENUE OF POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY DOES NOT WORK IT IS TIME TO TRY SOMETHING ELSE. (YOU HAD TO READ THIS BOOK TO FIND THAT OUT?)
WHEN GEORGE WASHINGTON CAME DOWN WITH A SORE THROAT AFTER HAVING BEEN OUT IN THE RAIN THE PREVIOUS DAY, THE DOCTOR DID THE USUAL REMEDY OF BLEEDING HIM. AFTER HE DIED, AND BECAUSE OF WASHINGTON’S NOTORIETY THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY STARTED QUESTIONING THE USE OF BLOOD LETTING. THIS IS KUHN’S IDEA OF “A PARADIGM SHIFT”. IT IS JUST COMMON SENSE. IF SOMETHING DOES NOT WORK TRY SOMETHING ELSE.
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Re: “Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into the amusing papers, but Kuhn is one.” Sorry, He is neither an historian or a philospher, but, yes, this IS a comic book.
How much possible abuse can the word “paradigm” take? How many times can it possibly be fitted onto a single page? If these questions intrigue you, you might want to take a look at this. Otherwise, stay away.
It has, of course, loved a certain popularity with pseudo-intellectuals. The thing to keep in mind is that pseudo-intellectualism is a form, a particularly virulent form, of ANTI-intellectualism. (Hence Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.)
Rating: 1 / 5
“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” for me was an incredible read. I took it to some extent differently. The structural aspects were riveting and honest (to the dismay of Kuhn’s contemporaries)but for me, Kuhn’s honesty showed through in that the faith that modern society puts in science is not as solid as we reckon. We are now in the peaceful period of “normal science”. It was like this before we learned that the earth was round, it was this way before we learned that the earth wasn’t the focal top of the universe, et cetera, et cetera. Kuhn believed that we had a need for this structure, and would hold quick to it until we were effectively forced to accept a new paradigm. Kuhn armored my faith in God and His creation of the world, Kuhn’s openness allows me to easily confront the evolutionary, anti-God, establishment that exists in modern(current) historical interpretation of observation.
Rating: 5 / 5
If there’s an resolution (and there may not be an resolution) then Kuhn hasn’t found it. Postmodernistists who do not know science but who like to ‘criticize’ science often cite this book. Have they understood it? I haven’t, because the argument makes no sense. I do know physics, which does. Kuhn was not really a working scientist, and cannot describe what scientists do (see, but, the gorgeous essays on creativity by Einstein, Hadamaard, and Poincare). Consider the following: a successlul speculator cannot even clarify sensibly how he makes money (witness Soros’s book “The Alchemy of Finance”). How can a nonscientist, or even a scientist, be expected account ’systematically’ for the wonder of scientific discovery?
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