Wes Sharrock is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester and Rupert Read is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia

"As Thomas Kuhn indicated in the first sentence of his great book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his aim was to “produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed”. Unfortunately, many of Kuhn's readers have been possessed by a distorted image of Kuhn's own position, and so failed to appreciate the signal contribution he made to our understanding of scientific practice. Sharrock and Read aim to do for our image of Kuhn what Kuhn did for our image of science. They succeed brilliantly, giving a wonderfully insightful and nuanced account of what Kuhn was up to and what he achieved." Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge

• Acknowledgements. Abbreviations for Kuhn's Works.Introduction: The Legendary Thomas Kuhn.Part I Exposition.1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.2 The Historical Case Studies.Part II Critical Issues.3 Kuhn and the Methodologists of Science.4 Incommensurability 1: Relativism about Truth and Meaning.5 Incommensurability 2: World Changes.Conclusion: The Unresolved Tension.Notes.Bibliography.Index

Wes Sharrock is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester and Rupert Read is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia

"As Thomas Kuhn indicated in the first sentence of his great book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his aim was to “produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed”. Unfortunately, many of Kuhn's readers have been possessed by a distorted image of Kuhn's own position, and so failed to appreciate the signal contribution he made to our understanding of scientific practice. Sharrock and Read aim to do for our image of Kuhn what Kuhn did for our image of science. They succeed brilliantly, giving a wonderfully insightful and nuanced account of what Kuhn was up to and what he achieved." Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge

• Acknowledgements. Abbreviations for Kuhn's Works.Introduction: The Legendary Thomas Kuhn.Part I Exposition.1 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.2 The Historical Case Studies.Part II Critical Issues.3 Kuhn and the Methodologists of Science.4 Incommensurability 1: Relativism about Truth and Meaning.5 Incommensurability 2: World Changes.Conclusion: The Unresolved Tension.Notes.Bibliography.Index