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The Essential Tension Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
by Thomas S. Kuhn
University of Chicago Press, 1977
Cloth: 978-0-226-45805-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-45806-9 | Electronic: 978-0-226-21723-9
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226217239.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996) was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

I. Historiographic Studies

1. The Relations between the History and the Philosophy of Science

2. Concepts of Cause in the Development of Physics

3. Mathematical versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science

4. Energy Conservation as an Example of Simultaneous Discovery

5. The History of Science

6. The Relations between History and the History of Science

II. Metahistorical Studies

7. The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery

8. The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science

9. The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research?

10. A Function for Thought Experiments

11. Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research

12. Second Thoughts on Paradigms

13. Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice

14. Comment on the Relations of Science and Art

Index

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