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Early Life and Career
Kuhn had a drive towards physics, the history of science, and philosophy. He started out in physics in his personal studies and when he first started teaching, although he wanted to move over to science history. He graduated Harvard Summa Cum Laude in 1943, got his master's in physics in 1946, his doctorate in 1949, and eventually gained full professorship at UC Berkley in 1961. Additionally, he conducted radar research during world war two. -
Revolutions of Science
Kuhn became a philosopher and wrote two books for which he is known: "The Copernican Revolution," and "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." The first is where he describes plurality as it seems to relate to needing justification for a constantly higher scientific pursuit, why he thought the pre-Copernicus model hadn't been scrapped sooner, and to demonstrate incommensurability between pre/post paradigm shift models. His book about scientific revolutions is probably what he is most well... -
Contribution to Science
As previously discussed, Kuhn's book on scientific revolutions was an absolute shaker. According to Stanford's piece on it, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was an important stimulus to what has since become known as ‘Science Studies’, in particular the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK)." I his writing of this book, he outlines his new image of science; being about what it does(produce knowledge along with the old way), versus being an end in itself(the old way of analysis and... -
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