The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

Kuhn, Thomas S.

ISBN 10: 0226458067 ISBN 13: 9780226458069
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1977
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"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

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Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution.

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Title: The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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