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Bachelors in Physics at Harvard
Summa Cum Laude
Thomas Kuhn struggled with deciding a major when he arrived at Harvard. Kuhn was deciding between mathematics and physics, and after discussing with his father he decided to go with physics. During the 1940s with the war, the US government was putting much effort into the advancement of American physics. Kuhn decided to study physics. Through talks with his father, along with possible job opportunities he decided Physics was his best option. -
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Professor in Philosophy of Science at Harvard
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Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of California at Berkeley
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The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn wrote his first book "The Copernican Revolution", in this book he analyses the Copernican Revolution. The Copernican Revolution was a shift in culture, shying away from an understanding of the universe as centered around the Earth to a heliocentric understanding, as the universe being centered around the Sun. https://fpa2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/kuhn-thomas-s-the-copernican-revolution.pdf -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This is one of Kuhns most popular works. This was his "Landmark" second book. "He argued that scientific research and thought are defined by “paradigms,” or conceptual world-views, that consist of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methods." (Vieira, 2022) A Paradigm is a pattern, or something used as the "typical example" of something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8 https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/papers/Kuhn-SSR-2ndEd.pdf -
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Professor in Philosophy of Science at Princeton University
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Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Death
Cambridge, Massachusetts