Quantum gravity and the structure of scientific revolutions

Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 12 (2):322-339 (1981)
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In a case study Kuhn's morphology of scientific revolutions is put to the test in confronting it with the contemporary developments in physics. It is shown in detail, that Kuhn's scheme is not compatible with the situation in physics today.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas Samuel Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Otto Neurath.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.David Bohm - 1964 - Philosophical Quarterly 14 (57):377-379.
The Structure and Dynamics of Theories.[author unknown] - 1978 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 40 (4):680-681.

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