Source · Seed idea · last reconsidered September 8, 2026
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The book that described science as long periods of puzzle-solving inside an unquestioned framework, broken by crises in which the framework itself changes.
- Territories
- Knowing
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Book · University of Chicago Press · 1962
Interpretation
Kuhn spent much of his later career objecting to how the word paradigm was being used by people citing him. Worth remembering before citing him.
Provenance
is the origin of
- Normal science does not test its frameClaim
Stated across the book's central chapters.
related to
- Thomas KuhnPerson
Kuhn is the book's author.