Thomas Kuhn
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American historian, physicist and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Thomas Kuhn's Published Works
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- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1963) (53384)
- The structure of scientific revolutions, 3rd ed. (1996) (6603)
- The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change (1978) (1782)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 2nd edition (1970) (1493)
- The Essential Tension (1977) (994)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1962. (1962) (848)
- The Copernican revolution : planetary astronomy in the development of western thought (1958) (648)
- Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? (1970) (636)
- Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Reflections on my Critics (1970) (622)
- The Copernican Revolution (1957) (492)
- The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science (1961) (442)
- The Road since Structure (1990) (387)
- Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability (1982) (319)
- Historical structure of scientific discovery. (1962) (233)
- Mathematical vs. Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science (1976) (176)
- A Transformation in Physics. (Book Reviews: Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912) (1978) (173)
- Theory-change as structure-change: Comments on the sneed formalism (1976) (136)
- SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (1982) (135)
- Dubbing and redubbing: the vulnerability of rigid designation (1990) (112)
- Possible Worlds in History of Science (1988) (109)
- The Genesis of the Bohr Atom (1969) (95)
- Rationality and Theory Choice (1983) (94)
- Notes on Lakatos (1970) (91)
- Metaphor and Thought: Metaphor in science (1993) (60)
- BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Revolutionary View of the History of Science: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970) (53)
- The relations between history and history of science. (1971) (52)
- Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (1952) (50)
- Sources for the History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report (1968) (49)
- THE HALT AND THE BLIND: PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE* (1980) (39)
- The tiger and the shark: The introduction of temporal discontinuity, 1896–1905 (1983) (34)
- Carnot's Version of “Carnot's Cycle” (1955) (31)
- The Caloric Theory of Adiabatic Compression (1958) (30)
- Sources for History of Quantum Physics (1968) (29)
- A Simplified Method of Computing the Cohesive Energies of Monovalent Metals (1950) (26)
- A convenient general solution of the confluent hypergeometric equation, analytic and numerical development (1951) (20)
- Professionalization Recollected in Tranquility (1984) (20)
- An Application of the W.K.B. Method to the Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals (1950) (16)
- Sadi Carnot and the Cagnard Engine (1961) (14)
- "Sources for History of Quantum Physics. An Inventory and Report", Thomas S. Kuhn, John L. Heilbron, Paul L. Forman, Lini Allen, Philadelphia 1967 : [recenzja] / Zygmunt Kolankowski. (1968) (11)
- On Learning Physics (2000) (11)
- La Mer's Version of “Carnot's Cycle” (1955) (11)
- Die kopernikanische Revolution (1981) (11)
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Thomas S. Kuhn, Chicago-London 1962 : [recenzja] / Eugeniusz Olszewski. (1963) (10)
- Scientific development and lexical change (1984) (7)
- Scientific Revolutions as Changes of World View (1976) (6)
- Newton's "31st Query" and the Degradation of Gold (1951) (5)
- Teaching the History of Science (1958) (4)
- THE ROLES OF ONE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IN INTERPRETING QUANTUM MECHANICS (2003) (4)
- The Histories of Science : Diverse Worlds for Diverse Audiences / Thomas S. Kuhn. (1987) (4)
- The tiger and the shark: Preface (1983) (4)
- The conservation of energy and the principle of least action (1981) (4)
- A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Volumes VII and VIII: The Seventeenth Century (1959) (3)
- The Turn to Recent Science (1967) (3)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic & Copernican. Galileo Galilei. Translated by Stillman Drake, foreword by Albert Einstein. Univ. California Press, Berkeley, 1953. 496 pp. Illus. $10 (1954) (3)
- Philosophy of Natural Science.@@@The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.@@@Galileo: A Philosophical Study. (1975) (2)
- The Scientific Work of René Descartes (1596-1650). J. F. ScottDescartes and the Modern Mind. Albert G. A. Balz (1953) (2)
- Book Review:A Documentary History of the Problem of Fall from Kepler to Newton Alexandre Koyre (1957) (2)
- Scientific knowledge as historical product (1984) (2)
- Response to Commentaries [by Kitcher and Hesse] (1982) (2)
- The tiger and the shark: The electromagnetic impulse hypothesis of x-rays (1983) (1)
- From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe . Alexandre Koyré. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., 1957. xii + 313 pp. Illus. + plate. $5. (1958) (1)
- Herbert Dingle, The Scientific Adventure: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science . New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. Pp. ix, 372. $6.00. (1953) (1)
- Einstein's Critique of Planck (1980) (1)
- A Highly Significant Book: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957) (1)
- somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science." (1987) (1)
- Comment (1969) (1)
- Notes & Correspondence (1952) (0)
- Epilogue: The tiger and the shark (1983) (0)
- Introduction (1992) (0)
- Foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn (1983) (0)
- STRUCTURES A ND D YNAMICS O F T HEORIES (1975) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1952) (0)
- Localized energy in spreading impulses (1983) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: The appeal in Germany to the quantum theory (1983) (0)
- Dialogue on the Great World Systems. Galileo Galilei. In the Salusbury translation. Revised and annotated by Giorgio de Santillana. Univ. ChicagoPress, Chicago; Cambridge Univ. Press, London,1953. 506 pp. Illus. $12.50 (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Main Currents of Western Thought Franklin L. Baumer (1954) (0)
- Review of Publications- The Copernican Revolution (1958) (0)
- The structure of scientific revolutions . The history of sexuality (1999) (0)
- Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century, a Study in the Relations of Science and War with Reference Principally to England. A. R. Hall (1953) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: Problems with visible light (1983) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: Synthesis of matter and light (1983) (0)
- Origins of x-ray spectroscopy (1983) (0)
- STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF THEORIES (1975) (0)
- 1 The Context of the MYCIN Experiments Artificial (0)
- The tiger and the shark: Notes on sources (1983) (0)
- Copernicus . The founder of modern astronomy. Angus Armitage. Yoseloff, New York, 1957. 236 pp. Illus. + plates. $5. (1958) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: Secondary rays: British attempts to retain mechanism (1983) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: Bibliography (1983) (0)
- The Individual in History and in Cultural Evolution. (1962) (0)
- Book reviews (1972) (0)
- Quantum transformation experiments (1983) (0)
- The tiger and the shark: The analogy between γ-rays and x-rays (1983) (0)
- Administrative Documents (1956) (0)
- Endpiece: Paradigms and “normal science” (1997) (0)
- 2 The Kuhnian Revolution (0)
- New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes. Norman Kemp SmithDescartes' Philosophical Writings. Norman Kemp SmithThe Method of Descartes. A Study of the Regulae. L. J. Beck (1955) (0)
- Twentieth Century (1968) (0)
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