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Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold more than one million copies since its publication in 1962, is one of the most cited academic books of all time, and continues to be read and studied today. This volume of new essays evaluates the significance of Kuhn's classic book in its changing historical context, including its initial reception and its lasting effects. The essays explore the range of ideas which Kuhn made popular with his influential philosophy of science, including paradigms, normal science, paradigm changes, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability; and they also look at less-studied themes in his work, including scientific measurement, science education, and science textbooks. Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as unpublished material in the Thomas Kuhn Archives at MIT, this volume offers a comprehensive way into Kuhn's philosophy and demonstrates the continuing relevance of his ideas for our understanding of science.

"A major reassessment, by leading philosophers of language and mind, of one of the most celebrated and influential books of the past forty years, Saul Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. The volume demonstrates that many of the issues first introduced by Kripke, both exegetical and philosophical, remain urgent and unsettled"--

"In 1971 John Rawls's A Theory of Justice transformed twentieth-century political philosophy, and it ranks among the most influential works in the history of the subject. This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the book's publication by offering a multi-faceted exploration of this important work"--

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, Wittgenstein, Austin, literature, and modernism. These accessible and penetrating essays by distinguished scholars explain how to enter into the sound, the content, and the lasting significance of this distinctively American philosophical voice.