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Thomas Kuhn
Tomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio July 18th 1922. Kuhn is well known as being a famous philosopher. -
Work during world War 2
In 1943 Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard University. Kuhn would spend the next couple years conducting research for Harvard that was related to Radar. After the war, in 1946 Kuhn pursued a master's degree in Physics. A few years later he would earn his doctorate. -
Teaching at Harvard
During the late 1950's Thomas Kuhn was teaching different Undergraduate classes at Harvard University. In 1957 Kuhn was teaching a class that was focused around historical cases studies and science. This aloud Kuhn to focus to concentrate on the history of science Kuhn would publish his first book called The Copernican Revolution -
The Paradigm Shift
Thomas Kuhn would become a professor at the university of California. In 1962 Kuhn would write and publish his book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Within the Book Kuhn would speak about Paradigm Shift. https://youtu.be/tasVTgZc9Gw -
Contribution to Philosophy of Science
Thomas Kuhn has had a massive contribution to Philosophy of Science. The term Paradigm Shift is used by scientist all of the time. Kuhn set fourth to the scientific community that science was not so "Gradual". Kuhn's theory was that new discoveries were Revolutions. After he published his book in 1962 a new way of thinking was widely accepted by the scientific community . -
Resources
Mrgooldhistorybisj. (2017, December 03). Kuhn's paradigm 4 mins. Retrieved May 08, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw
