Thomas Kuhn, who for over 30 years was president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, is joining Anterix, the private broadband network company, as a member of the board and its vice chairman.

On the impact of Kuhn’s 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Interest in Kuhn’s book has not waned. The Index is now online, and records one-hundred citations to the book for 1999—plus ...

“Great books are rare. This is one. Read it and you will see.” The introductory essay is written by the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, who explores how Kuhn’s ideas have changed our view of the ...

Edison Electric Institute's Thomas Kuhn: Stepping down the voltage. Here is the backstory to the Edison Electric Institute’s annual meeting in Austin this month: After 30 years President and CEO ...

Kuhn’s most controversial ideas relate to how paradigms change. Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen This year marks the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Thomas Kuhn’s famous book, The ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. The 18 th-century Irish philosopher Bishop George Berkeley concluded that, since all we know of the ...

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According to Thomas Kuhn, the scientific progress of any discipline could be distinguished by a pre-paradigm phase, a normal science phase and a revolution phase. The science advances when a ...

Scientific American's review of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which ...