Table of Contents

Preface I: Introduction: A Role for History II: The Route to Normal Science III: The Nature of Normal Science IV: Normal Science as Puzzle-solving V: The Priority of Paradigms VI: Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries VII: Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories VIII: The Response to Crisis IX: The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions X: Revolutions as Changes of World View XI: The Invisibility of Revolutions XII: The Resolutions of Revolutions XIII: Progress through Revolutions Postscript-1969 Index

About the Author

Thomas S. Kuhn was the Laurence Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of linguistics and 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.