Thomas Samuel Kuhn

By Samueldiaz

  • Introduction

    Introduction
    Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in the year 1922. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Thomas Khun’s started his academic life in physics but then he switched to history and science but still retained his interest in physics. In the year 1943, Thomas Khun graduated from Harvard summa cum laude. From there, Thomas Kuhn spent the remainder of the war doing research for radar systems at Harvard and then Transferred over to Europe.

  • Professor at Harvard

    Professor at Harvard
    Thomas Kuhn ended up earning his Masters degree in 1946, and ended up earning his Doctorate in 1949 in physics (focusing on the application of quantum mechanics to solid state physics). Kuhn was elected to the prestigious Society of Fellows at Harvard. At the time until 1956, Khun taught a class in science for undergraduates in humanities as part of the General Education of Science Curriculum.

  • Kuhn's career takes off

    Kuhn's career takes off
    In 1957, Khun published his first book, the Copernican Revolution. In 1961, Kuhn became a full professor at the University of California at Berkeley. When he moved out there in 1956, he had to take up a class in the history of science, which in turn, gave him his interest in the philosophy of science. Kuhn ended up working with his colleagues, Wittgenstien and Paul Feyerabend and made the draft to the Structure of Scientific Revolutions which was published in the year 1962.

  • Paradigm Explained

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw

  • The Great Debate

    The Great Debate
    In 1964, Kuhn left Berkeley to take up the position of M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy of History of Science at Princeton University. In the following year at the International Colloquium in the philosophy of Science held in Bedford College in London, there was a debate between Khun and Feyerabend to discuss rationalism. Coming out of this debate was the second publication on The Structure of the Scientific Revolutions including postscripts which clarified Kuhn's notion of paradigm.

  • Thomas Kuhn's later years

    Thomas Kuhn's later years
    A collection of all of Kuhn’s essays was published in 1977 called The Essential Tension which emphasized the importance of traditional science. The following year, he published his second historical monograph Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. In 1983, he was named Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, Kuhn continued to develop work in history and the philosophy of science until his death in 1996.

  • Work Cited

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  • Work Cited Continued

    “Thomas Kuhn.” Prabook.com, 1 Jan. 1962, prabook.com/web/thomas.kuhn/311102. “Thomas Kuhn.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 July 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn. Mrgooldhistorybisj, director. Kuhn's Paradigm 4 Mins. YouTube, YouTube, 3 Dec. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw.