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Tom was educated at Lincoln School, a private progressive school in Manhattan. Tom also attended a progressive private school – Hessian Hills School. In sixth through ninth grade, that is when he learned to love mathematics. Influenced by radical teachers, he also hoped to join the leftist American Student Union. Toms was a straight-A student, he was admitted to Harvard University(Thomas Kuhn).
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Tom was an American philosopher of science. He is eminent book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions “(1962), fundamentally argues that “science” does not progress as a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions called “paradigm shifts” ("Kuhn's Paradigm Shifts. PDF").
A “paradigm” is a specific theoretical orientation, based upon a particular epistemology and research methodology, reflective of a particular scientific community at a particular time in history. -
He died Monday, June 17, 1996, at his home in Cambridge. He was 73 when he passed away, He had been ill for the last two years with cancer of the bronchial tubes and throat("Prof. Thomas S. Kuhn Of MIT, Noted Historian Of Science, Dead At 73"). Kuhn was the most well-known philosopher of science of the modern age may sound like faint praise(Green).
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA into an affluent family. He had a younger brother name roger, who were born three years later. His parents would call him Tom. His father were Samuel Louis Kuhn, was a Cincinnati-born industrial engineer and investment consultant. A graduate of Harvard and MIT, he had fought in World War 1. Tom’s mother, Minette Kuhn (née Strook), came from a wealthy New York family (Thomas Kuhn).
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