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Born date
Thomas Samuel Kuhn, an American philosopher of science, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Samuel L. Kuhn and Minette Stroock Kuhn. Both of his parents were Jewish. -
Beginning of studies
Kuhn started his historical studies of science. -
The Copernican Revolution
Kuhn first book, The Copernican Revolution, is where Kuhn studied the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance. -
First Essays
Kuhn first essay's in the theory of science, "The Essential Tension" was the key to the tension between desire for innovation and the conservativeness of most scientists. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolution
At Berkeley, Thomas Kuhn wrote and published his best known and influential work: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn argues that science does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions, also called paradigm shifts.Link text -
Key Event
Thomas Kuhn attended an International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science that was held at Bedford College, London. There was a debate supposedly for Kuhn with Feyerabend. Feyerabend was ill and replaced with Popper. Papers from the discussion were published later into "Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge." -
MIT
Kuhn was named Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Kuhn continued working on both history and philosophy of science, including the development of the concept of incommensurability. -
Died
Thomas Kuhn passed away after being diagnosed with lung cancer back in 1994. He was married twice and had 3 children he left behind. Kuhn was working on a second philosophical monograph of an evolutionary conception of scientific change in developmental psychology.