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Early Life
Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922 and died June 17, 1996 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Growing up, he attended Hessian Hills School in New York, His interest were physics and mathematics; both which he studied while attending The Taft School in Watertown. After graduation, he went onto Harvard University to obtain a Bachelor's in physics and later obtain both his M.S. and Ph.D. From 1948 to 1956 he taught history of science at Harvard. -
What is Thomas Kuhn Known For?
Thomas Kuhn proposed the notion of paradigm shifts. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. In his most notable, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he explained and indicated that scientific fields undergo periodic shifts and do not progress in a linear and continuous pattern. Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm shifts are applied in other fields of science such as political science and economics. -
Thomas Kuhn Views
Kuhn thought that science guided by one paradigm would be ‘incommensurable. The term incommensurable refers to there being no common measure to relate different scientific theories. Because of his publications of ''Structure of Scientific Revolutions", it transformed the philosophical and scientific community. His ideas within this work set standards for what he thought what should be accepted as science and what should.
