Essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change, The
Science Science -- History Science -- Philosophy SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects History
University of Chicago Press
1977
EISBN 9780226217239
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I. Historiographic Studies""; ""1. The Relations between the History and the Philosophy of Science""; ""2. Concepts of Cause in the Development of Physics""; ""3. Mathematical versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science""; ""4. Energy Conservation as an Example of Simultaneous Discovery""; ""5. The History of Science""; ""6. The Relations between History and the History of Science""; ""II. Metahistorical Studies""; ""7. The Historical Structure of Scientific Discovery""; ""8. The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science""
""9. The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research?""""10. A Function for Thought Experiments""; ""11. Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research""; ""12. Second Thoughts on Paradigms""; ""13. Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice""; ""14. Comment on the Relations of Science and Art""; ""Index""
""9. The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research?""""10. A Function for Thought Experiments""; ""11. Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research""; ""12. Second Thoughts on Paradigms""; ""13. Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice""; ""14. Comment on the Relations of Science and Art""; ""Index""
""Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters.""-Sir Peter Medawar, Nature
