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The Move
Kuhn moved to California in 1956 to take a job in the Philosophy Department. A few years later became a professor in which he proposed his draft of the legendary book "The Structure of Science" to his colleges(Bird, 2018). 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/ -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kuhn wrote one of the most academic reviewed books of all time, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"(Bird, 2018). Here Kuhn described advancement in science as discovering new information about previous observations and causing a new theory to be created. That is referred to as a Paradigm shift. 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/ -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Video
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International Colloquium
An international conference took place in 1965. It was supposed to be a debate between Kuhn and Feyerabend. Feyerabend was unable to attend, and ended up being a conference on Kuhns work. Therefore illuminating his work, and later revised his book published in 1962 to better suite criticism of how paradigm was illustrated. (Bird, 2018) For citation please reference dates 1956 or 1962 within this timeline as they are all the same. -
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The Later Years
Kuhn became a professor at MIT in 1983. He worked on topics in history & philosophy, including incommensurability, and when he died in 1996 he was working on a 2nd philosophical monograph dealing with an evolutionary conception of scientific change & concept acquisition in developmental psychology(Bird, 2018)
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/
