The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

An essay collection about scientific progress from a renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus of philosophy.

With a Preface by the Author

The assembled studies in Thomas S. Kuhn's The Essential Tension shed much light on the early evolution and subsequent reformulations of his provocative The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Read as a group, they reveal a profound and subtle mind struggling to articulate and to resolve tensions between different modes of knowing a...