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Thomas Kuhn

  • The Copernican Revolution’

    The Copernican Revolution’
    In 1957, he refuted the claims of other prominent scientists and stated that the earth was at the centre of the Solar System, in his book, ‘The Copernican Revolution’.
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’
    In 1962, his influential work, ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ was published, which was first published as part of the ‘Foundations of the Unity of Science’ series. In these works, he stated that competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable.
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    Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy

    From 1979 to 1991, he was the ‘Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy’, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • ‘Black-Body Theory

    ‘Black-Body Theory
    His second historical monograph on the early history of quantum mechanics, ‘Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity’ was published, in 1988.
  • End Work

    End Work
    At the time of his death in 1996, he was working on his second philosophical monograph that dealt with, ‘evolutionary conception of scientific change’ and ‘concept acquisition in developmental psychology’.