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Thomas Khun
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, perhaps the most influential. His 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most cited academic books of all time. Kuhn’s contribution to the philosophy of science marked not only a break with several key positivist doctrines, but also inaugurated a new style of philosophy of science that brought it closer to the history of science. -
Thomas Kuhn (July 18,1922-June 17,1996)
Thomas Khun cites Aristotle’s analysis of motion, Ptolemy’s computations of plantery positions, Lavoisier’s application of the balance, and Maxwell’s mathematization of the electromagnetic field as paradigms (1962/1970). -
Thomas Khun (July 18,1922-June 17,1996)
An important focus of Kuhn’s interest in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was on the nature of perception and how it may be that what a scientist observes can change as a result of scientific revolution. He developed what has become known as the thesis of the theory-dependence of observation. -
Thomas Khun (July 18,1922-June 17,1996)
Thomas Khun retired in 1991, he died at age 73, of cancer on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been suffering from throat and lung cancer for two years. -
Bibliography
Kuhn,Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.1972. November 1st, 2018.
