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In the Beggining
Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard in 1943 with a degree in the history of science. He worked on research relating to radar for the allies during World War 2. After the war he gained a master’s degree in physics in 1946 and a doctorate also in in physics in 1949. Then in 1956 Kuhn would go on to teach a class that worked on the history of science where he got his “first opportunity to study historical text in detail”. But what really got Kuhn thinking is when he read the works of Aristotle. -
Moving Forward
Starting in 1961 Kuhn became a fulltime professor at the University of California at Berkley. His main area of study became the Philosophy of science. It was here at the University where he met Stanley Cavell, introducing him to Wittgenstein’s and Feyerabend’s writings on the subject. -
Kuhns Firts Publication
1962 would become a big year for Kuhn and even further into the future because it would be at this time Kuhn released his work called the, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In the book, Kuhn described what takes place within in a paradigm and that one paradigm would be incommensurable to another paradigm. Kuhn describes a paradigm as an area in time which scientist conduct normal science where in which more and more questions would arise leading to a crisis state… -
Kuns First Publication Cont'd
And would subsequently be replaced by a new paradigm. Given enough time these two paradigms although being in the same field say physics would be incommensurable to each other. Incommensurable meaning “to have no common measure”.
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Kuhn Continues His Work
Kuhn would continue his work after his publication defending his view against opposition and slightly tweaking his work to help define it even better in 1982. Some say this would delegitimize his work because it broke from the core of the theory, but Kuhn would counter that it only strengthened his argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_kXuhRIoQ
