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Thomas Kuhn American Philosopher of Science
In 1962, Kuhn's famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Structure) helped bring about a revolution, the historiography revolution of the 1960s. -
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922, Cincinnati, Ohio and died from lung cancer in Cambridge, Mass on June 17,1986. Thomas Kuhn, an American historian of science well-known for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), one of the most prestigious works of history and philosophy written in the 20th century. Thomas played an important role in the academic and popular communities, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become a vernacular English language. -
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Kuhn started to teach philosophy of science at Harvard.
Thomas received his PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 1949. Two years later, Thomas Samuel Kuhn trained as a physicist at Harvard University, became a historian and philosopher of science with support from Harvard President James Conant. -
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Kuhn started teaching Philosophy of Science at the University of California at Berkeley.
In 1961, Kuhn went on to become a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, moved there in 1956 for a position in the history of science, but in the department of philosophy. This allowed him to expand his interest in scientific philosophy. -
Thomas Authored The Copernican Revolution.
In 1957, Thomas Kuhn wrote the Copernicus Revolution book, in which he provided an analysis of the Copernicus Revolution, documenting the pre-Ptolemaic understanding through the Ptolemaic system and its variants until the eventual acceptance of the Keplerian system. -
Thomas Kuhn's most important contribution to empirical research in modern times.
Kuhn claimed that science guided by one paradigm would be (incommensurable) with science developed under a different paradigm. In other words, no common measure exists to evaluate the various scientific theories. -
YouTube Thomas Kuhn : The structure of Scientist Revolutions
The video gives examples of paradigm shifts in the discovery of oxygen, and later the Copernican revolution, Newton etc. Kuhn in his influential work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). According to Kuhn, different stages in the history of scientific thought are characterized by different scientific paradigms, or worldviews, each consisting of a body of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methodologies. https://youtu.be/L70T4pQv7P8 -
Thomas Kuhn Authored The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The key idea of this important and controversial book is that the development of science is driven, in normal times of science, following what Kuhn calls it a "paradigm"The functions of a paradigm are to give scientists puzzles to solve and to provide the tools for their solution. Kuhn intends to convey a precise mes-sage with the term. A normal scientist does, Kuhn thinks, spend a lot of-time on topics that look insignificant from the outside. (He even uses theterm “minuscule” [1996, 24]. -
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Kuhn started teaching philosophy of science at Princeton University.
In 1972, Kuhn was teacher of philosophy and history of science at Princeton, and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which gave the world the phrase "change of paradigm." As Morris recounted in his recent book, The Ashtray, Kuhn was upset with Morris's suggestions that Kuhn was a megalomaniac. -
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Kuhn is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kuhn joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his work has focused on cognitive and linguistic processes focus on the philosophy of science, including the impact of language on the development of science. -
Thomas Kuhn has deceased.
June 17th, 1996, Thomas S. Kuhn, a philosopher of science, passed away when he was 73. To say that Kuhn was the most celebrated philosopher of modern science may sound like a feeble praise, But if you work in the field, you understand that its concept of "paradigm change" has reinvented the way people are. Understanding the progress of scientific thought, he received a great deal of attention and controversy.