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Thomas Samuel Kuhn
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Bachelor's Degree
Graduated from Harvard with summa cum laude -
Master's Degree
Earned his Master's Degree in physics at Harvard -
Doctorate
Earned his Doctorate at Harvard -
Professor in General Education at Harvard
Kuhn taught a science class for undergraduates in humanities where the focus was around historical case studies. This was his first opportunity to study historical scientific texts in detail most notably the works of Aristotle. -
The Copernican Revolution
Kuhn published his first book titled "The Copernican Revolution" where he discusses the shift from geocentric understanding of the universe to a heliocentric understanding. This is important because he questions the philosophy of how mankind's view of the life can be altered by the concept of what the center of the universe actually is. -
Professor a the University of California at Berkeley
Taught at the University of Berkeley where he met his colleague Stanley Cavell who introduced Kuhn to the works of Wittgenstein and Paul Feyerabend which built into the ideas behind the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolution" -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Arguably the most important contribution of Kuhn to the philosophical science world. He argues that scientific research can be defined as paradigms or conceptual world views that consist of theories, experiments, and trusted methods. -
The Essential Tension
Kuhn's earlier essays emphasizing the importance of tradition in science was published. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
Kuhn's second historical monograph that detailed the early history of quantum mechanics.
