The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Brief Summary

Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" argues that science doesn’t progress steadily but through sudden "paradigm shifts." A paradigm is a set of accepted theories and methods guiding research. Scientists work within a paradigm until unexplained anomalies accumulate, creating a crisis. If a new paradigm better explains these anomalies, it may replace the old one in a "scientific revolution." This cycle repeats as new paradigms eventually face their own challenges.