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Early Life
Kuhn earned his degrees from Harvard; his bachelor's 1943, masters & Ph.D. 1949. The first two were in physics & the Ph.D. was in the history of science. Kuhn taught the philosophy of science at Harvard 1951-1956, then the University of California at Berkley 1956-1964, then MIT from 1979-1991.
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Kuhn's First Book/Early Works
Kuhn published his first book in 1957, The Copernican Revolution. Kuhn's second book was, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this is where he argued that scientific research and thought processes are defined by world views and are formed by formal theories.
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Kuhn's Second Book
Kuhn's second book laid the basis for scientists to challenge the way they do research. The research generated theoretical problems that sometimes denied the research & showing the paradigm's difficulties. Instead, Kuhn asked to create a logical revolution that replaces the old paradigm with a new one.
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Kuhn's Later Works
Kuhn's second book revolutionized the way people thought about other disciplines as well, like politics, economics, & sociology. His later works were a collection of essays, The Essential Tension 1977, The technical study of Black-Body Theory, & the Quantum Discontinuity1978.
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