Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn

Jul 18, 1922

Thomas Kuhn was an American philosopher who was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, OH.

Education 1943-1949

1943

Kuhn got his bachelor's in physics on 1943 and his master's on 1946 both at Harvard University and got his PHD on 1949.

Teaching Career

1951

He eventually ended up teaching history and philosophy of science at Harvard from 1951 to 1956, at Berkeley from 1956 to 1964, at Princeton University from 1964 to 1979, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1991.

First book

1957

One of his first contributions outside of the class room was when you published his book, The Copernican Revolution, on 1957.

Collection of Essay Works

1977

On 1977, Kuhn released The Essential Tension and on 1978 he released Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity.

Death

Jun 17, 1996

Thomas Kuhn died on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, MA.

Sources

2000

I will attach a link that in my opinion is worth looking into, it explains the ways he think about some of the stuff he teaches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL7PA51Qs8A Unknown author. Britannica. "Thomas S. Kuhn." Encyclopedia Britannaica, Inc., 14 July, 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn.