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Early Years/World War II
Thomas Kuhn was a very smart student who had tough beginnings to read but later became a straight A student that lead him to Harvard. At a young age, Thomas Kuhn knew he wanted to major in physics. Trying to finish his degree early to help with the war efforts over in Europe, he attended summer school and got his Bachelor's done early. During the war, Thomas Kuhn was part of the Radio Research Laboratory’s theoretical group out of Harvard to provide counter measures against enemy radar. -
College Years
After the war, Thomas Kuhn went back to Harvard to teach students. As only a junior fellow at the beginning, Kuhn worked on his research about scientific processes and theories. After not receiving a teaching job at Harvard, he went to the University of California Berkley to teach History of Science. The other colleges he taught at were Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology . At both, he taught philosophy and history of science. -
The Copernicus Revolution
Thomas Kuhn's first book, The Copernicus Revolution, criticized Nicolaus Copernicus model was very similar to Claudias Ptolemy's model of how heavenly bodies orbit each other and the sun. From this, Thomas Kuhn came up with how conceptual schemes operated and were used. These concepts must be functional logical and psychological. Writing through out his whole book, Thomas Kuhn thought Copernicus's model was not a revolution but the start to one. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/Paradigm Shifts
Thomas Kuhn's most famous book that modern philosophy of science uses talked about paradigm shifts and how scientists explain their theories. By expanding their "paradigms" scientists use these to work out hard data and explain scientific phenomena. The only problems that come from this is the fact that their data might generate anomalies that were not there before. This leads to a scientific revolution where an old theory is replaced with a new one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw
