Thomas kuhn

Thomas Kuhn 1922-1996

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  • Education

    Education
    Kuhn graduated From Harvard in 1943 with his bachelor's degree before going on to completing his master's and then a doctorate, both in physics, by 1949.

  • Copernicus revolution

    Copernicus revolution
    In 1957, Kuhn published his first book The Copernicus Revolution, detailing the magnitude of Copernicus' theory.

  • Paradigm Shifts

    Paradigm Shifts
    First introduced in the 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn gives his theory of paradigm shifts and changes in science.

  • Incommensurability

    Incommensurability
    Aside from the notion of paradigm shifts, Kuhn presented a thesis that challenged both positive conceptions of scientific change and realist ones.

  • Thomas Kuhn: His Core Ideas

    Thomas Kuhn: His Core Ideas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL7PA51Qs8A

  • References

    References
    Bird, Alexander, "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/. Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, and James Conant. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Harvard University Press, 2003.