Thomas Kuhn July 18,1922-June 17,1996

By janupatel533

  • Kuhn's Life pt.1

    Thomas Kuhn was born in July of 1922 and died in June of 1996. He received his education from Harvard University. He also worked as a teaching assistant for Harvard President Conant, then later on taught at other well known schools such as MIT, Princeton, and UC Berkeley. His most known book "The Structures of Scientific Revolutions", in which he discussed how science is not a linear, but all over the place sort of ordeal.

  • Kuhn's Life pt.2

    He states that science is not straightforward due to the fact that different scientists or people can look at one issue and solve or visualize it in different ways. One picture that is most often looked at would be the duck and the rabbit optical illusion image. It shows the difference in how people visualize a single image but interpret it all so differently.

  • Kuhn's Life pt.3

    Kuhn's Life pt.3
    Therefore, Thomas Kuhn's structures do show why science cannot always be trusted. In different scenarios, there will most likely be different results. He did this to disprove any failures or major skews in results in any scientific revelation because not everything is "incommensurable". This was a very profoundly controversial reading in its time and sold many, many copies. Kuhn's way of thinking challenged science in his time and his theories are still utilized.

  • MLA Sources pt.1

    Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018, plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
    Naughton, John. “Thomas Kuhn: the Man Who Changed the Way the World Looked at Science.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Aug. 2012, www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions.

  • MLA Sources pt.2

    This post was written by theOUP Philosophy team.The OUP Philosophy list boasts cutting-edge scholarship including monographs handbooks and textbooks - suitable for graduate and undergraduate use, and Name *. “Thomas Kuhn and the Paradigm Shift - Philosopher of the Month.” OUPblog, 13 Nov. 2019, blog.oup.com/2019/11/thomas-kuhn-paradigm-shift-philosopher-of-the-month/.