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Kuhn's Turn To Philosophy
Thomas Kuhn would make a switch to philosophy of science mainly mainly because of his learning of Aristotle’s idea of motion and his change of perception he had to take to understand it from the Greeks point of view. Not so much a contribution but the first domino that fell that changed his line of thinking making him the man we know him today.
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The Lowell Lecture
It was during this time Kuhn gave a lecture outlining his view on science versus the traditional view of science which was just the slow gathering of information that then produces facts. He pointed out during his lectures that at the time current scientific text books did not teach the creativity that leads to new founded theories.
https://iep.utm.edu/kuhn-ts/#H2 By James A. Marcum -
The Publish of The Copernicus Revolution
Kuhn's first book features the study of astronomy from the Greeks to the Copernicus Revolution outlining the rapid change in world views when Copernicus's work was published. While his first book would not dive into paradigm shifts, it would serve as a precursor to an understanding of how people would accept a paradigm shift.
"Thomas Kuhn." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 12 Jun. 2017. Web. 6/5/2022 -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The year of 1962, Thomas Kuhn released his book on Scientific Revolutions explaining how scientific advancement or change occurred with it alternating between normal and revolutionary phases. He also responsible for coining the phrase paradigm shifts in his book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8 Scientific Revolutions