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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is diving into Thomas Kuhn's influential philosophical text.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's resolution for 2015 was to read a new book every two weeks and discuss it with the Facebook community.

He's developed a book club that's heavy on big ideas, and his sixth pick is no different.

For his most recent selection in "A Year of Books," Zuckerberg has chosen the late physicist Thomas Kuhn's philosophical treatise "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

Since its initial publication in 1962, it has become "one of the most cited academic books of all time," establishing Kuhn as "perhaps the most influential" philosopher of science in the 20th century, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Kuhn's book may be most remembered for introducing the phrase "paradigm shift," representing instances in scientific history when a perspective was fundamentally shifted, like when quantum physics replaced Newtonian mechanics.

Zuckerberg explains his latest pick on his personal Facebook page:



If there was ever a philosophy book to read by a physicist, it's probably "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

"The real measure of Kuhn's importance ... lies not in the infectiousness of one of his concepts but in the fact that he single-handedly changed the way we think about mankind's most organized attempt to understand the world," John Naughton writes for The Guardian.

"A Year of Books" so far: