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Life and death of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 18, 1922, and died at the age of 73 on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Physics Degrees
Thomas Kuhn earned his degrees in Physics at Harvard University. He earned a Bachelors in Physics in 1943, a Masters in Physics in 1946, and a Doctorate in Physics in 1949. This is important because Kuhn is more known for his work in the philosophies of science compared to his generalized work in Physics. He attributes his views on the philosophies to his 3 years of academic freedom in the Harvard Junior Fellowship. -
The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn's first major work deals with his views of the history of heliocentrics during the Renaissance period. It breaks down the paradigm shift of going from a Heaven's related solar system to the idea that everything revolves around the sun. It shows the relationship between the heavy mathematics( Copernicus)utilized in the beginning and then finally Newton's breakdown of physics and the solar system. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This book was the landmark in Kuhn's views on the history and philosophy of science. This book is used to explain so much of what Kuhn believed were Paradigm shifts and how we came to know what normal science is through history. His teachings in the philosophy were evolutionary in the fact that they are still taught throughout philosophy of science courses as a staple of what revolutions are. -
The Essential Tension : Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
This essay from Thomas Kuhn breaks down the relationship between the history of science and the philosophy of science. It also goes through the metahistorical studies and historiographic studies in Physics and the physical sciences through history. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
In this particular essay, Kuhn pulls apart Max Planck's study of the origins of quantum revolution. It was primarily used to reinterpret Planck's thoughts and stages in its gradual integration. He surveys the development of quantum mechanics. -
Thomas Kuhn Speaking about his book The Structures of Scientific Revolutions
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Works Cited
Kuhn, Thomas S. (1957). The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Kuhn, Thomas (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1st ed.). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. -
Works Cited 2
Kuhn, T. (2011). The essential tension: selected studies in scientific tradition and change. In The essential tension: selected studies in scientific tradition and change. University of Chicago Press. Kuhn, T. (1978). Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity: 1894-1912. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.