The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962
Kuhn coined "paradigm shift" and, more importantly, showed that science does not progress smoothly but through revolutionary ruptures, when anomalies accumulate until the old framework collapses. The most cited academic book of the 20th century, across every discipline.
The case against
Kuhn's key term shifts meaning at least a dozen times across these pages, and he spent the rest of his career walking back the relativism readers found in them. The case studies skew heavily toward physics, the prose is committee-grade, and the central idea fits in an hour; the book takes considerably longer.
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