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Book · 2012 · Science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn · Recommended by 18 people on 14 podcasts

#123 of 16,877 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts

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The most influential book in the philosophy of science called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Basically explaining how does science change or progress over time.
John Lisle · The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2025 Listen at 1:41:31

What they say about it

Grouped from 24 mentions
  • Coins the term paradigm shift“coined the term Paradigm Shift”
    4
  • Famous book on science“most influential book in the philosophy of science”
    2
  • Changes your paradigms“how you change your paradigms”
    2

The best things said about it

6 of 24 · every mention
Recommended
This is a book that coined the term paradigm shift which basically is what we've been talking about throughout this whole conversation of a shift in technology and scientific understanding and its implications for society.
Ben Buchanan The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2025
Recommended
One of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named Thomas qan he was one of the most famous historians of Science and his book is perennially in print it's called the structure of scientific Revolutions.
Martine Rothblatt The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2024
Discussed
So Thomas Cune in the structure of scientific revolution, he introduces this idea of the paradigm shift and what he notes is that when a new paradigm comes along, it's embraced by the youth.
Michael Saylor The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jun 2025
Discussed
You’ll be aware of the famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which explains how you change your paradigms regarding what you know.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2023
Discussed
You know was Thomas Kuhn and the structure of scientific revolutions I think I have this right basically argued that you know science advances through death.
Russ Roberts EconTalk · Mar 2023
Discussed
There's a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn which outlines what a paradigm shift is.
Graham Hancock The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2019

Where and when it comes up

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Podcast episodes that discussed The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by year. One episode counts once, however often the book came up.

How it comes up

Recommended means the speaker tells listeners to read it.

Most mentions, by podcast

Top 9 of 14 shows

18 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Also: John Lisle · Maria Konnikova · Michael Saylor · Patricia Fara · Patrick Byrne · Russ Roberts

Why people recommend it

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn is a landmark work in the philosophy and history of science that examines how academic disciplines progress through alternating periods of normal science and disruptive paradigm shifts. Ben Buchanan recommended the book on The Ezra Klein Show to help listeners understand how technological shifts alter scientific understanding and societal norms. Martine Rothblatt praised the work on The Tim Ferriss Show as a perennial classic that fosters scientific literacy and critical thinking. Dr. Charan Ranganath and Jim Kwik both brought up the text on separate podcasts to discuss paradigms, memory, and how true innovation frequently originates from outsiders outside a given industry. Dr. Mark Hyman referenced the book on The Megyn Kelly Show to illustrate the inherent difficulties of changing established scientific paradigms. John Lisle explained on The Joe Rogan Experience that it is arguably the most influential philosophy of science book ever written, charting how scientific fields evolve through crises and anomalies. Maria Konnikova also invoked the work on Risky Business to describe how entrenched scientific communities predictably resist novel ideas and paradigm shifts.

Every mention

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Martine Rothblatt one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named Thomas qan he was one of the most famous hist… 2
Recommended
“one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named Thomas qan he was one of the most famous historians of Science and his book is perennially in print it's called the structure of scientific Revolutions”
Recommended
“it's called the structure of scientific revolutions”
Jim Kwik it's similar to Innovation where there's a there's a book called the structure of Scientific Revolution 3
Recommended
“it's similar to Innovation where there's a there's a book called the structure of Scientific Revolution”
Discussed
“and with uh Elon, you know, I read this book um we were bonding over this book called The Structure of Scientific Revolution”
Discussed
“With Elon, I read this book called 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.' Not only does reading fiction enhance creativity and imagination, but it also develops empathy.”
Ben Buchanan one of the books is the structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas this is a book that coined the term P… 1
Recommended
“one of the books is the structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas this is a book that coined the term Paradigm Shift which basically is what we've been talking about throughout this whole conversation of a shift in technology and scientific understanding and its implications for society and I like how uh in this book which was written in the”
Dr Charan Ranganath Have you ever read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn? 1
Recommended
“Have you ever read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn?”
Dr. Mark Hyman and Thomas wrote about this in the structure of scientific revolutions. 3
Discussed
“and Thomas wrote about this in the structure of scientific revolutions.”
Discussed
“I mean you know you I don't know if you ever heard of the book the structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas Co. You talked about this idea of normal science.”
Discussed
“And Thomas wrote about this in the structure of scientific revolutions. How it's very difficult to convert people who believe a certain thing...”
Jordan Peterson when Thomas wrote the the um the what was it his theory of Scientific Revolution I can't remember the name… 2
Discussed
“when Thomas wrote the the um the what was it his theory of Scientific Revolution I can't remember the name of the book exactly at the moment the structure of scientific revolutions”
Discussed
“You’ll be aware of the famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which explains how you change your paradigms regarding what you know.”
Arun Sundararajan but now as crowd-based capitalism goes mainstream it's going to highlight how there's a big disconnect betw… 1
Discussed
“but now as crowd-based capitalism goes mainstream it's going to highlight how there's a big disconnect between what we're measuring which is GDP and what we value as things that really point to progress and so as this gap starts to grow I think much like there's a gap between the observations and the theories that leads to a paradigm”
Douglas Lenat so there all sorts of things where um humans are locked into paradigms what Thomas cun called paradigms and… 1
Discussed
“so there all sorts of things where um humans are locked into paradigms what Thomas cun called paradigms and we can't get out of them very easily”
Ezra Klein the structure of scientific revolutions where we get paradigm shift from. It's not like is it the book by T… 1
Discussed
“the structure of scientific revolutions where we get paradigm shift from. It's not like is it the book by Thomas [ __ ] that coins the term paradigm shift the philosopher of science”
Graham Hancock and there's a book called the structure of scientific revolutions by thomas kuhn which outlines what a para… 1
Discussed
“and there's a book called the structure of scientific revolutions by thomas kuhn which outlines what a paradigm shift is”
Jed Buchwald the thing that he's famous for the structure of scientific revolutions came out in 62 1
Discussed
“the thing that he's famous for the structure of scientific revolutions came out in 62”
Joe Hage and as that famous book which you'll be aware of the structure of scientific revolutions how you change you… 1
Discussed
“and as that famous book which you'll be aware of the structure of scientific revolutions how you change your paradigms about what you know”
John Lisle He wrote this the most influential book in the philosophy of science called the structure of scientific rev… 1
Discussed
“He wrote this the most influential book in the philosophy of science called the structure of scientific revolutions. Basically explaining how does science change or progress over time.”
Maria Konnikova You I'm sure you read Nate, you went to the University of Chicago, so I'm assuming that this is something t… 1
Discussed
“You I'm sure you read Nate, you went to the University of Chicago, so I'm assuming that this is something that that you read maybe in more than one class. Uh Thomas Coon's structure of scientific revolutions.”
Michael Saylor So Thomas Cune in the structure of scientific revolution, he introduces this idea of the paradigm shift and… 1
Discussed
“So Thomas Cune in the structure of scientific revolution, he introduces this idea of the paradigm shift and what he notes is that when a new paradigm comes along, it's embraced by the youth.”
Patricia Fara I think an enormous number of holes have been picked in Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revo… 1
Discussed
“I think an enormous number of holes have been picked in Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and I think Thomas Kuhn himself would agree with many of those.”
Patrick Byrne There's a book, god I haven't read it in 20 years. Something like the structure of revolutions. It was abou… 1
Discussed
“There's a book, god I haven't read it in 20 years. Something like the structure of revolutions. It was about how, about revolutions tend to have a certain pattern”
Russ Roberts you know was Thomas Kuhn and the structure of scientific revolutions I think I have this right basically ar… 1
Discussed
“you know was Thomas Kuhn and the structure of scientific revolutions I think I have this right basically argued that you know science advances through death”
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“you know the structure of scientific revolutions is the famous book that everyone reads people like Thomas Kuhn and Paula abend and so forth”

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