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Thomas Kuhn birth
Thomas Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922, to Minette Stroock Kuhn and Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial engineer. Kuhn earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at Harvard University but obtained his Ph.D. There in the history of science. He taught the history of philosophy of science at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
Copernican Revolution
In Kuhn's Perspective, the Copernican revolution was not only a revolution in astronomy but also a revolution in science and philosophy. Relates an astronomer's solution to the life of an everyday man. Swerdlow, N. M. “An Essay on Thomas Kuhn’s First Scientific Revolution, ‘The Copernican Revolution.’” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 148, no. 1, 2004, pp. 64–120. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1558245. Accessed 4 Jul. 2022. -
The Essential Tension
It is a collection of Kuhns essays emphasizing tradition's importance within science. He explains that there is a tension between scientific innovation and the necessity to conserve less. The attempted refutation of fundamental theories means that revolutions are not sought except under extreme circumstances.
Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#IncoWorlChan. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
He wrote "The structure of scientific revolution," one of his greatest works. In this book, he notes that scientific research is defined by “paradigms” that consist of theories, experiments, and methods. Scientists typically accept a prevailing paradigm and refine ideas. Eventually, however, their efforts may generate anomalies that expose inadequacies. This is resolved by an intellectual revolution which is replaced. -
youtube video and source for " The structure of of a scientific revolution"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The University of Chicago Press, 2015. -
source for "black body theory
Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#IncoWorlChan -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
In classical physics, a particle could possess any energy in a continuous range. If it changes energy, it does so continuously, possessing at some point in time every power between the initial and final energy states. Kuhn argued Planck did not have in mind a genuine physical discontinuity of energies until 1908, after Albert Einstein and Paul Ehrenfest had themselves emphasized it in 1905–6.
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Thomas Kuhns Death
