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Samuel Thomas Kuhn
Samuel Thomas Kuhn was an American Philosopher born on born July 18, 1922, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died June 17, 1996, Cambridge, Mass (Britannica). He was a philosopher who spent most of his academic time studying physics. His studies and interests include history, science, philosophy, and gradually physics to improve his studies. -
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Passion for Philosophy of Science
He continued his studies at Harvard College and earned his B.S. degree in physics from Harvard College in 1943, as well as earning an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1946 and 1949 a degree in science (Bird, 2018). In the fullness of time, Kuhn went on to give lectures to students attending U.C. Berkeley in the philosophy department in 1961 -
Great Works
While working at U.C. Berkeley as a professor teaching, he continued his studies even further by expanding his own personal research on scientific theories. After hard dedicated work, Kuhn went on to publish one of his most notable works in 1962, The Structure of Scientific Theory. His work was published in the series “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”, edited by Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap (Bird, 2018). -
Kuhn Theory
Kuhns's work on The Structure of Scientific Theory explains that science does not bring us further to the truth, rather it is a never-ending paradigm. The functions of a paradigm are to supply puzzles for scientists to solve and to provide the tools for their solution (Bird, 2018). Until someone else brings a new theory to light. The cycle repeats itself for another new scientific theory to challenge, offer better models, new observation, and a closer objective incommensurable to the old.