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Thomas Kuhn's Contributions to the Philosophy of Science Part I
Thomas Kuhn made famous in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions the concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts. According to Kuhn, a paradigm a whole way of doing science, in some particular field. A paradigm shift or "revolution" is when one paradigm replaces another in science, changing how we look at a field. Peter Godfrey-Smith. Theory and Reality : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. -
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Thomas Kuhn Published The Copernican Revolution
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Thomas Kuhn's Contributions to the Philosophy of Science Part II
Thomas Kuhn went beyond just the concept of a paradigm shift and defined four phases of science. These phases were; normal science, model crisis (crisis science), model revolution, and a paradigm change. Kuhn's principle of normal science was at contrast with Poppers characterization of permanent openness. Peter Godfrey-Smith. Theory and Reality : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. -
Thomas Kuhn Published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Thomas Kuhn Published the Second Edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In response to Masterman’s criticism that Kuhn had used ‘paradigm’ in a wide variety of ways, Kuhn added an important postscript in which Kuhn clarified his notion of paradigm in the second addition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Bird, Alexander, "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/. -
Thomas Kuhn Published The Essential Tension
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