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The Copernican Revolution
In 1957, Thomas Kuhn published a book called "The Copernican Revolution". In this book he goes over the geocentric model and how the community shifted to towards Kepler’s Law of Planetary Motion which helped develop the heliocentric model created by Nicholas Copernicus. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. -
The Concept of the Paradigm Shift
One of Thomas Kuhn's biggest contributions to the philosophy of science was the concept of a "paradigm shift". Which is introduced in his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" basically in the book he explains that paradigm shifts occur through revolutions. He also explains that these shifts do not just occur because of empirical evidence but because of new social norms and cultural changes. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962. -
The Essential Tension
In 1977, Kuhn released a book called "The Essential Tension" through this book he argued that science isn't a straightforward collection of knowledge but instead a process of theory-building and experimentation. The collections of essays with in "The Essential Tension' help shape how new paradigm develop and replace other paradigms.
Kuhn, Thomas S., editor. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Science Tradition and Change. University of Chicago Press, 1977. -
Incommensurability
In 1995, in the book "Incommensurability in Science" Thomas Kuhn argues when a paradigm shift occurs that the new one is usually incommensurable with the previous one. So in short the new and old paradigm are so different in the background that they can not be compared directly. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science. Ed. James Conant and John Haugeland. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Print. -
