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Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati Ohio.
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The Copernican Revolution was the first book that Thomas Kuhn wrote in which he shifted his research towards astronomy and studied the heliocentric theory of our solar system which was a concept created by Nicolaus Copernicus.
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The book the Structure of Scientific Revolution that Thomas Kuhn wrote was revolutionary not only in science but also in philosophy as well as many other topics. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions introduces many concepts such as normal science which is defined as the day‐to‐day research that scientists conduct in order to fill in the gaps in scientific knowledge that are found within the dominant paradigm. Off of the previous statement, normal science was also described as a puzzle.
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One of Thomas Kuhn's most widely known concepts that are still heavily used to this day is the Paradigm shift which is also mentioned in the book the Structure of Scientific Revolution. The Paradigm shift is a critical concept that changed the way science is analyzed because it described that true scientific progress occurs when there's a dramatic shift in the understanding or application of a certain scientific concept or theory. Kuhn described this in 4 phases that end with a Paradigm Shift.
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Thomas Kuhn died June 17, 1996, in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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https://youtu.be/vzo8vnxSARg
This Youtube video elaborates on the idea of the scientific revolution It specifically discusses the scientific revolution that occurred in Europe from the 1500s to late 1700s. This video also discusses the history of Thomas Kuhn and how he impacted philosophy of science. It also provides information on the Paradigm shift and presents an example by using Galileo and Newton overturning a concept by Aristotle then their concept being overturned by Einstein. -
-Ewoldsen, David R. Normal Science and Paradigm Shift. 7 Nov. 2017,onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118901731.iecrm0169.
-Pajares, Frank. “The Structure of Scientific Revolution .” Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/kuhnsyn.html.
-Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018, plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg