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Kuhn's Early Life
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 18, 1922. He also received his Ph.D. in 1949 at Harvard University. He began to teach philosophy of science at many universities during the periods between 1951 and 1991. His theories are well known and are considered controversial to many. -
Kuhn Epiphany
He also believed that everyone has their own truth and that people's experiences can shape how they view things. One day he had a thought about Aristotle. The thought was, how can someone who wrote so many brilliant topics be so misguided when it came to physics (Horgan)? He then realized that Aristotle did make sense and that his version of physics was only different than Newton's not inferior. -
Kuhn's best known work
His best known work was “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” which was published in 1962, and talked about the concepts of paradigm shifts. Kuhn disputed that instead of science having a straight path, it has revolutions that give periods of stability. This being a different view at the time caused people to not accept it. -
Death of Kuhn
He was also not a fan of Karl Popper's theory that you can only disconfirm a theory and not prove it. He stated that “you can no more confirm falsification than you can verification”. On June 17, 1996, Kuhn died in Cambridge, Mass. He is now highly known by the philosophy community.