Thomas Kuhn born July 18, 1922 to June 17, 1996

  • Noted for what book?

    Thomas Kuhn is noted for the book The Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S Kuhn| American Philosopher an historian, 2019)
  • Scientific revolutions

    Thomas Kuhn argued that scientific research and and thought are defined by "paradigms" or conceptual world views that consist of formal theories, classic experiments and trusted methods. (Thomas S Kuhn| American Philosopher an historian, 2019)
  • Paradigms

    In the postscript to the second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn says of paradigms the are "the most novel and least understood aspect of this book."(Bird,2018).
  • What is a paradigm?

    Thomas Kuhn argued that a paradigm determines the kinds of experiments scientists perform, the types of questions the ask and the problems they consider important. (Thomas S Kuhn| American Philosopher an historian, 2019)
  • Paradigm

    A shift in the paradigm alters the fundamental concepts underlying research and inspires new standards of evidence, new research techniques, and new pathways of theory and experiment that are radically incommensurate with the old ones.
  • Died

    July 17, 1996
  • Normal Science

    "Normal science is what produces the bricks that scientific research is forever adding to the growing stockpile of scientific knowledge." ( Thomas Kuhn-Biography, Facts and Pictures, 2017).
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  • References

    1. Thomas S. Kuhn| American Philosopher and historian (2019). In Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/bibliography/Thomas_s-kuhn.
  • References

    1. Bird, A. (2018). Thomas Kuhn (E.N. Zalta:ED). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato/stanford.edu/entries/thomas- kuhn/#ConcPara.
  • References

    1. Thomas Kuhn – Biography, Facts and Pictures. (2017).
      Famousscientists.org. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/
  • Born

    Thomas Kuhn born July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati Ohio (Thomas S Kuhn| American Philosopher an historian, 2019)