PHIL202 I003 Winter 2022 - Thomas Kuhn 1922 - 1996(Jonathan Steele)

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  • The Copernican Revolution

    In 1957, during the period of time where Kuhn was appointed to an assistant professorship in general education and the history of science, he published his first book, The Copernican Revolution. Bird, A. (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved March 17, 2022, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#HistScie

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Theory of Incommensurability

    In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.This paper was influential and controversial. Kuhn proposed that the development of science occurred by adhering to a paradigm which provides scientists with puzzles to solve and tools with which to solve them and that science guided by differing paradigms could not be measured in the same way.

  • International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science

    In 1965, Kuhn's work was featured at the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held at Bedford College in London.

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2 ed.

    In 1970, the second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published which added a postscript that clarified what the definition of a paradigm was. The postscript also, for the first time, explicitly gave his work an anti-realist element; it denied the coherence of the idea that theories could be regarded as more or less close to the truth.

  • The Essential Tension

    In 1977, a collection of Kuhn's essays were published in a work known as The Essential Tension, in which he emphasized the importance of tradition in science.

  • Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity

    In 1978, Kuhn published Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, which discussed the early history of quantum mechanics. In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.This paper was influential and controversial. Kuhn proposed that the development of science occurred by adhering to a paradigm which provides scientists with puzzles to solve and tools with which to solve them and that science guided by differing paradigms could not be measured in the same way.