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History of Science Speech, Harvard
He delivers a History of Science Speech at Harvard and has epiphany about physics. He realized he could not fully understand the physics of Aristotle whilst learning modern day physics. Kuhn was doubting his future in physics and wasn’t sure about pursuing his PhD in physics but finally realized he had been looking at it all wrong. He needed to read Aristotle’s work with the same assumptions, not modern-day assumptions about physics. -
move to University of California at Berkeley
His acceptance of the assistant professor position at the University of California at Berkeley would Harvard would not give him tenure so he moved on and would write some of his most influential work. Kuhn was not at all happy about becoming a full professor of the History of Science but accepted the position. He wanted to focus solely on Philosophy of Science. -
The Copernican Revolution
He publishes a slightly controversial book dismantling Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus. Saying it caused a revolution without being a revolution itself. Kuhn not only accuses the Copernican model of being simple but also asks why the Ptolemy model was not overthrown sooner than it was. It is unsurprising that Kuhn studied and wrote about this particular model of the universe because it was a paradigm shift of its time. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is an important work because of everything it implies about how science works. His description of a paradigm shift and how that leads to a scientific revolution is extraordinary. A revolution occurs because of two main events; a scientific crisis and a new paradigm becomes more than a thought.
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