The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The book that gave us the word "paradigm" — and changed how we think science works.
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Présentation
Does science advance smoothly, fact by fact? Not quite, argues Thomas Kuhn in this hugely influential essay. Most of the time scientists do "normal science" within a shared framework — a paradigm. But anomalies pile up, crises erupt, and now and then a revolution overturns the framework entirely, as with Copernicus or Einstein. Kuhn's account of paradigms, crises and scientific revolutions reshaped the history and philosophy of science and seeped into everyday language. Concise and provocative, it asks unsettling questions about objectivity and progress that are still debated today. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how knowledge really changes.