New Releases by Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas S. Kuhn''s classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." --Nicholas Wade, Science "Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." --William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review "Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . . . Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work." --Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Among the most influential academic books in this century." -- Choice --One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement 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.

Kuhn''s teaching career is documented in lecture notes for courses in the history and philosophy of science he taught while at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, and course notes for classes he taught at MIT, including the Nature of Scientific Knowledge (24.05J); Topics in the History of Physical Science (24.270J); Rise of Scientific Cosmology: Aristotle to Newton (24.272J); Problems in the Nature of Explanation (24.851); Philosophy of Scientific Development (24.853); Historical Interpretation of Scientific Thought (24.854J); and Problems in the Philosophy of History (24.855). Kuhn''s involvement with the Quantum Physics Project, 1962-1973, is documented in research materials including correspondence with physicists such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Max Planck, and Linus Pauling, 1910-1930, and reprints of journal articles by these scientists as well as extensive notes Kuhn took on these sources. There is professional correspondence, 1958-1991, with colleagues, students, publishers, and professional organizations including the National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; copies of speeches and lectures he gave; and notes he took at professional meetings. Kuhn''s writings are documented in correspondence and drafts of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Black-body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity.