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Who is Thomas Kuhn
Thomas S. Kuhn was born on July 18th, 1922, in Cincinnati Ohio. -
Kuhn Early Development
Kuhn attended the University of Harvard to obtain his bachelors and masters in the years of 1943 and 1946. Until finally obtaining a PhD in 1949. He will later teach history or the philosophy of science at Harvard in the years of 1951- 1956.This experience led Kuhn to become a historian of science. -
Event/moment of Thomas Kuhn
In 1957 Kuhn came out with his first book, The Copernican Revolution which studies the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance -
Kuhns most famous work
This entry is tiled Kuhns most famous work because in the year of 1962 Kuhn came out with his most influential book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In this book he would argue that scientific research and thought are defined by “paradigms,” or conceptual world-views, that consist of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methods. -
Kuhns Work
His research on the Paradigm altered the way that research was conducted. Also inspires new standards of evidence, new research techniques, and new pathways of theory and experiment that are radically incommensurate with the old ones. -
The back end of his work
In 1977 and 1978, Kuhn would come out with a collection of essays called The Essential Tension (1977), and the technical study Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (1978). These essays would go more in depth about his concept of paradigm shifts and the disciplines that came with them. -
The death of Kuhn
Kuhn died on the date of June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Ohio going down as an American historian of science. -
Cited Sources and YouTube Video
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Thomas S. Kuhn | American Philosopher and Historian.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn.
“Thomas S. Kuhn.” Obo, www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0202.xml. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8&t=354s