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Since its publication in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become one of the most popular attempts of all time to interpret the nature of science. It has proved an important step in a movement away from the positivistic empiricism that has held sway, among both philosophers and working scientists, for well over two generations. Writers in many disciplines have adopted the book’s fundamental notion of “paradigm” in analyses of their subject matter and controversies. The book has had an impact also on a wide body of laymen, even, on occasion, being cited as authority by spokesmen of the New Left.
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Shapere, D. (1984). The Paradigm Concept. In: Reason and the Search for Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9731-4_4
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