The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change by Thomas S. Kuhn
English | ISBN: 0226458067, 0226458059 | edition 1977 | Scan PDF | 366 pages | 15,4 mb
English | ISBN: 0226458067, 0226458059 | edition 1977 | Scan PDF | 366 pages | 15,4 mb
This is a nice collection of Kuhn's essays on various topics in the history and philosophy of science, which should be of value to anyone interested in Kuhn's thought and specifically in the important theory he put forth in his famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
In some ways, his approach is similar to Michael Polanyi's, so I thought I'd discuss both of them a bit here.
Writers like Kuhn and Polanyi's subjectivistic approach to science are still popular in some circles, mostly because of the west's fascination with the individual consciousness and ego and with the existential and phenomenological approaches to reality that grew out of that.