TY - BOOK ID - 78139096 TI - Thomas Kuhn's revolution : an historical philosophy of science PY - 2005 SN - 1281292141 9786611292140 1441148353 1847141943 9781847141941 9781281292148 082648591X 9780826485915 9781847141941 PB - London ; New York : Continuum, DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - History. KW - Kuhn, Thomas S. KW - Kʻo-en, KW - Kʻu-en, KW - Kuhn, T. S. KW - Kʻung-en, KW - קון, תומאס ס. KW - كون، توماس KW - Natural science KW - Natural sciences KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Philosophy&delete& KW - History KW - Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139096 AB - The influence of Thomas Kuhn (1922 -1996) on the history and philosophy of science has been truly enormous. In 1962, Kuhn's famous work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , helped to inaugurate a revolution - the historiographic revolution - in the latter half of the twentieth century, providing a new understanding of science in which 'paradigm shifts' (scientific revolutions) are punctuated with periods of stasis (normal science). Kuhn's revolution not only had a huge impact on the history and philosophy of science but on other disciplines as well, including sociology, education, econom ER -