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THOMAS S. KUHN (1922 - 1996)

CONFERENCES

• T. S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Impact, Relevance and Open Issues, Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens and Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, University of Athens, August 21-23, 2008
• Kuhn and the Sociology of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), University of Cambridge, March 20-21, 2006

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993.  Ed. James Conant and John Haugeland.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.
  • The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • "Metaphor in Science."  Metaphor and Thought.  Ed. A. Ortney.  Cambridge: CUP, 1979.  409-419.
  • Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912.  Oxford: OUP, 1978.
  • "Second Thoughts on Paradigms."  The Structure of Scientific Theories.  Ed. F. Suppe.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1974.  459-482.
  • "The Relations between History and History of Science."  Daedalus 100.2 (1971): . 
    • Interpretive Social Science: a Reader.  Ed. Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1979.  267-300. 
  • "Reflections on My Critics."  Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.  Ed. Imre Lakatos and A. Musgrave.  Cambridge: CUP, 1970.  231-278.
  • "The Function of Dogma in Scientific Research."  Scientific Change (Symposium on the History of Science, University of Oxford, 9-15 July 1961).  Ed. A. C. Crombie.  New York: Basic Books, 1963.  347-69.
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1962.
  • "The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science."  Isis 52 (1961): 161-193.
  • The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1952.
  • "Objectivity, Value Judgment and Theory Choice." 
    • Critical Theory Since 1965.  Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.  383-394.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Thomas Kuhn @ AllanNoble.Net

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Road Since Structure (1990)

  • What Are Scientific Revolutions (1987)

  • The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery (1962)

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962):

    • Ch. IX The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions (Marxists.Org)

  • Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science (1961)

  • The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research (1961)

• Selected Interviews:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Gutting, Gary, ed.  Paradigms and Revolutions: Appraisals and Applications of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1980.
  • Lakatos, Imre, and A. Musgrave, eds.  Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.  Cambridge: CUP, 1970.
  • Nickles, Thomas, ed.  Thomas Kuhn.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Barnes, Barry.  "Thomas Kuhn."  The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences.  Ed. Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.  83-100.
  • Barnes, Barry.  T. S. Kuhn and  Social Science.  London: , 1982.
  • Bird, Alexander.  Thomas Kuhn.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
  • Cedarbaum, D. G.  "Paradigms."  Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 14.3 (1983): 173-213.

  • Fuller, Steve.  Kuhn vs Popper: the Struggle for the Soul of Science.  Icon Books, 2003.

  • Fuller, Steve.  Thomas Kuhn: a Philosophical History for Our Times.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.
  • Gattei, Stefano.  Thomas Kuhn's 'Linguistic Turn' and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
  • Hoyningen-Huene, Paul.  Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
  • Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti.  Meaning Changes.  VDM, 2008.

  • Rouse, Joseph.  "Kuhn, Heidegger, and Scientific Realism."  Man and World 14 (1981): 269-290.

  • Sardar, Ziauddin.  Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars. 
  • Stegmuller, W.  The Structure and Dynamics of Theories.  1976.

On-Line:

• Obituaries:

  • Van Gelder, Lawrence: Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996 New York Times June 19, 1996, p. B7

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bird, Alexander:

    • Thomas S. Kuhn (DLB)

    • Thomas Kuhn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  • Forster, Malcolm: Guide to Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions

  • Franklin, James: Thomas Kuhn's Irrationalism New Criterion June 2000

  • Fuller, Steve: Thomas Kuhn: Chapter VIII Conclusions

  • Halbert, Martin: Thomas Kuhn: Structure of Scientific Revolutions

  • Healy, Tim: Thomas Kuhn

  • Pajares, Frank:

    • Thomas Kuhn

    • Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Outline and Study Guide

  • Pushkin, Dave: Relevance of Thomas Kuhn to Teaching and Intellectualism History of Intellectual Culture 2.1 (2001)

  • Sharrock, Wes, and Rupert Read: Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions?

  • The Tech: Thomas S. Kuhn

  • Weinberg, Steven: On Scientific Revolutions New York Review of Books 45.15 (1998): .

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Thomas Samuel Kuhn

    • Paradigm

    • Paradigm Shift

WWW GATEWAYS

• Austin, Michael: Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Brint.Com: Philosophy of Science & Information Technology: a Tribute to Thomas Kuhn

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