"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and paradigm shift.

Kuhn's approach to the history and philosophy of science has been described as focusing on conceptual issues: what sorts of ideas were thinkable at a particular time? What sorts of intellectual options and strategies were available to people during a given period? What types of lexicons and terminology were known and employed during certain epochs? Stressing the importance of not attributing modern modes of thought to historical actors, Kuhn's book argues that the evolution of scientific theory does not emerge from the straightforward accumulation of facts, but rather from a set of changing intellectual circumstances and possibilities. Such an approach is largely commensurate with the general historical school of non-linear history.

Table of Contents

Preface
I Introduction: A Role for History 1
II The Route to Normal Science 10
III The Nature of Normal Science 23
IV Normal Science as Puzzle-solving 35
V The Priority of Paradigms 43
VI Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries 52
VII Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories 66
VIII The Response to Crisis 77
IX The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions 92
X Revolutions as Changes of World View 111
XI The Invisibility of Revolutions 136
XII The Resolutions of Revolutions 144
XIII Progress through Revolutions 160
Postscript-1969 174
Index 211

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