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Thomas Kuhn Jul 18 1922 - Jun 17 1996

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  • The Copernican Revolution

    The Copernican Revolution
    This was Thomas Kuhn's first published book which was published by Harvard. Kuhn focus on the research that made the heliocentric model work and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth in an integral part of Newtonian science.
  • Professor at UC Berkeley

    Professor at UC Berkeley
    During his tenure at Berkeley, Stanley Cavell introduced Kuhn to the works of Feyerabend. This led to Kuhn to writing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions which was published in 1962 in the series International Encyclopedia of Unified Science.
  • Professor at Princeton University

    Professor at Princeton University
    Kuhn left Berkeley to be the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton. This helped promote is profile further amongst philosophers.
  • The Essential Tension

    The Essential Tension
    A collection of Kuhn's essay on philosophy and history of science were published. One of Kuhn's biggest focuses was the concept of a paradigm. Which is experiences alternating phases of normal science and revolutions. https://youtu.be/JQPsc55zsXA