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Thomas Kuhn as Historian

Thomas Kuhn as Historian

Timmins, Adam

Hardcover

PhilosophySports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 30, 2027

ISBN10: 3032376491
ISBN13: 9783032376497
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 30 2027
Language: English

Thomas Kuhn as Historian is the companion volume to Thomas Kuhn: The Reluctant Revolutionary by the same author and is the first book to focus exclusively on Kuhn's historical writing.

The book takes in The Copernican Revolution and Black-Body Theory & The Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912, as well as Kuhn's work on the Bohr Atom and the crisis of the old quantum theory. The book also assesses the relation of Kuhn's historical work to his philosophical output as well as examining his strained relationship with the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge movement that Structure inadvertently inspired. Although by the end of his career Kuhn had abandoned the history of science entirely and was keen to stress his identity as a philosopher, Timmins argues that in the end Kuhn was probably a better historian of science than a philosopher of science.

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