Thomas Kuhn and the Psychology of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm shift," social and psychological con...

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Main Author: Kaiser, David I. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2017-04-11T14:02:01Z.
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