I have not met or read any of his works. But I’m always looking for a good author and a good book as I travel a lot and have a fair amount of plane time.
Well you could have fooled me; great minds think alike, I guess.
I really don’t think you can go wrong reading Structures. It is one of the most highly readable works in the area of Philosophy of Science ever written, and there isn’t a dull page in it. You don’t have to agree with Kuhn to be staggered by his brilliance. He singlehandedly exploded for all of time the myth that science advances by way of the vaunted “Scientific Method.” As Kuhn illustrates with scintillating historical examples, only Micro-Science advances that way. All major/macro advances occur when the weight of anomalies not explained by the prevailing scientific paradigm push at least one trail-blazing scientist to a “paradigm shift.” (Yes, Kuhn coined the phrase.) Think Einstein rejecting Newtonian physics in favor or Relativity. Anybody who believes this shift occurred in a calm, rational, ‘scientific method’ way is a historical ignoramus. It was more like religious zealots fighting blindly for their ‘faith’ of choice.
That gives you the gist of it, anyway. If you do find time to read it, I can almost guarantee you won’t regret it. (Also, if you’ve ever bumped up against Post Modernism, you largely have Kuhn to thank. As such, it’s helpful to know how he brought about such a major intellectual shift, when in point of fact his sole focus was philosophy of science, not philosophy in general.)