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The Copernican Revolution
In 1957 Kuhn published ‘The Copernican Revolution’. In it, he stated that the earth was the center of the solar system, contradicting views of the time. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Harvard Univ. Pr., 2003. -
Paradigm Shifts
Kuhn proposed his idea of paradigm shifts. The idea is that scientific progress does not accumulate, it periodically starts over after a paradigm shift. It starts with normal science, where scientists do work and solve problems, adding to the paradigm. Then as more and more anomalies are found, scientists are determined to solve them, until a totally new way of thinking emerges and replaces the old way. The process then starts again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw -
Incommensurability
In ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’, published in 1962, Kuhn wrote about incommensurability and paradigm shifts. He describes how different paradigms from the same field of science cannot be compared to each other. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_kXuhRIoQ -
The Essential Tension
Thomas Kuhn published a collection of essays on history and philosophy of science. Kuhn, Thomas S. Essential Tension. 1977. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGZEZ96ynI