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Thomas Kuhn-Biography
Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922, died June 17, 1996. He was one of the most influential Philosopher that has crossed this planet. His book "The structure of academic Revolutions" is of one of the most cited academic books of all time- noted and cited by Stanford University. He had gone through his elementary education training at Lincoln school, a private school in Manhattan. This school stressed independent thinking rather than learning subjects and facts, This forms his academic background, -
Thomas Kuhn- The Copernican Revolution
This was his thought on Scientific thoughts and evolutions and a crisis in western's man's knowledge of God and the Universe. -
Thomas Kuhn- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Published in 1962, in the series “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”. The central idea of this book is that the development of science is driven, in normal periods of science, by adherence to what he called a ‘paradigm’. Kuhn claimed that science guided by one paradigm would be ‘incommensurable’ with science developed under a different paradigm, by which is meant that there is no common measure for assessing the different scientific theories.
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Thomas Kuhn- The Essential Tension
This book by Kuhn stressed the scientific tradition and change. This book included topics on science, histories and more. -
Thomas Kuhn and social science
. A central claim of Kuhn’s work in this regard is that scientists do not make their judgments as the result of consciously or unconsciously following rules. Their judgments are tightly restricted by the example of their guiding paradigm, which Kuhn was against. -
Thomas Kuhn-Conclusion
There are a lot to be said about Thomas Kuhn and his works but would rather stop here.
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