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Kuhn on architectural style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2009

David Wang
Affiliation:
Professor of Architecture, Washington State University Spokane, PO Box 1495, Spokane, Washington 99210, USAdavidwang@wsu.edu

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By any measure Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark in recent influential ideas. The very term ‘paradigm shift’, now common parlance, derives from this 1962 work. Structure redirected its own domain, the philosophy of science, from a logical positivist orientation in its evaluation of scientific progress to one that accommodates a complex mix of sociological, linguistic and psychological factors. Perhaps because of this interdisciplinary inclusiveness, Kuhn's insights have informed theory in many disciplines. A survey of the recent literature includes works in anthropology, comparative literature, criminal justice, art history, education and feminist studies.

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