Thomas kuhn

Thomas Kuhn

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  • Birth

    Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • The Copernican Revolution

    Th Copernican Revolution was Thomas Kuhns book published in 1957. After teaching for the president of Harvard in 1956, his interest in the history of science piqued. Even more so for that of the history of astronomy and that of Aristotle. A year later he published his first ever book. Kuhn, Thomas. The Copernican Revolution. 1957.

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    In 1962 Thomas Kuhn wrote arguably one of the most influential books title The Structures of Scientific Revolutions. In it he explains this theory of a ‘Paradigm shift’. It is essentially his way of explaining how an agreed school of thought changes and the steps that it has to go through in order for it to happen. When one of these schools of thought has a breakthrough, it leads to “The field [having] its first paradigm” (Godfrery, 80).

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Pt 2.

    Then after it becomes disproven enough times “According to Kuhn, the scientists start to lose faith in their paradigm” (Godfrey,82). You then have a crisis and people go back to the basics of these conjectures and eventually the paradigm shifts causing a new way of thinking.
    Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago :University of Chicago Press, 1962.
    Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.
    University of Chicago Press, 2003.

  • The Essential Tension

    Unlike his other works, this was in fact not a book. It was a collection of essays that he wrote earlier on the topic of philosophy and history of science. The title comes from one of his earliest ever essays that has to do with the importance of the tradition of science.

  • Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity

    Not only did Thomas Kuhn delve into philosophy, but also "turned toward the early history of quantum theory" (Bird). In his book Kuhn analyzes the notes of Planck and surprisingly he did not have any "mention of paradigms or incommensurability" (Bird). This was very peculiar, since it was what he was so well known for. Kuhn, Thomas S. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Chicago :University of Chicago Press, 1987.

  • Death

    Thomas Kuhn dies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Thomas Kuhn: His Core Ideas (Video)

    https://youtu.be/YL7PA51Qs8A