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Harvard
Thomas Kuhn went to Harvard and started his studies in physics. He later changed his studies to the history of science. As his studies continued he moved to the philosophy of science. He then . In 1943, he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude. After that he spent the last years of world war 2 researching radar ant Harvard before studying in Europe. He gained his master’s degree in physics in 1946, and his doctorate in 1949, also in physics. -
Professor
In 1961 Kuhn became a full professor at the University of California at Berkeley, In the philosophy department This enabled him to develop his interest in the philosophy of science. In 1962 in the series “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”, edited by Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap he published a paper about the scientific revelation. Kuhn developed a term called paradigm. -
Princeton
In 1964 Kuhn left Berkeley to take up the position as Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University. The following years helped promote Kuhns among fellow philosophers. A critical event was a debate between Kuhn and Feyerabend, with Feyerabend promoting the critical rationalism that he shared with a fellow professor -
Essay in philosophy and history
A collection of Kuhn’s essays in the philosophy and history of science was published in 1977. The title was Essential Tension. This title was taken for an essay that Kuhn had wrote in his early career. The following year saw the publication of his second historical monograph Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity,