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The Early Years
Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 18 1922. Everything that I have found on him jumps right into his college education so I will as well. He Graduated from Harvard in 1943 and then went on to get his masters and PHD in physics. Kuhn then after started teaching at Harvard, teaching the General education of Science. -
His New Found Love
The class that he was teaching got him close with historical texts where he came across Aristotle. He was so taken back by him that he started to focus more on history and the science that played into it. He was appointed at Harvard as an assistant professor of general education and the history of science. This led him to write his first book The Copernican Revolution. -
The Paradigm
Kuhn moved to California in 1961 where he got a job teaching philosophy at Berkeley. There he meet all different types of fellow philosophers including Paul Feyerabend. With both of their collaboration they came up with the The Structure of Scientific Revolutions which describes the paradigm. -
The Big Event
Thomas left Berkeley in 1964 to become the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University. This would lead to one of the biggest events in Kuhns life where he got a chance to have a public debate with Feyerabend at the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held in London. Unfortunately Feyerabend was ill and could not attend so he had the debate with John Watkins. This lead to Kuhns papers being read over everyone else's. -
His Last Years
In 1978 Kuhn published his second biggest works Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity which discussed the early theories of quantum mechanics. He was then granted the title of Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. There he worked on many topics over the years until his death in 1996.
