(American historian and philosopher of science, 1922–1996). Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science, rejects the conventional view of science as a steady, linear progression of knowledge. Instead, Kuhn proposes that scientific history comprises long periods of relative peace ("normal science") punctuated by violent intellectual revolutions brought about by "paradigm shifts". Kuhn notes the transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics as a particularly clear example of this.
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