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Thomas Kuhn (July 18, 1922 - June 17, 1996)
During Kuhn's life, he became an extremely influential, important, and prominent figure in the world of Scientific Philosophy for his writings on scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts within the scientific community. The effect Kuhn had on the philosophy of science can not be understated as his books, papers, and speeches are as useful and valuable today as they were across his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw&ab_channel=mrgooldhistorybisj -
Thomas Kuhn (1961)
Thomas Kuhn at the University of California at Berkeley became a professor of the history of science within the philosophy department. This is where his interest in scientific philosophy grew as he was introduced to the works of Wittgenstein and Paul Feyerabend (Bird). -
Thomas Kuhn (1962)
Kuhn drafted the book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions where it was published in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Bird). He wrote about the cycle in which science goes through to reach a revolution. All science, as Kuhn wrote, must go through his proposed cycle in order. Starting from pre-science which leads into normal science then goes into model drift and model crisis followed by model revolution and finally into a paradigm change. -
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Thomas Kuhn (1977-1978)
The Essential Tension was a collection of Kuhn's essays on philosophy and the history of science published in 1977 which discussed things such as the importance of tradition within science (Bird). In the following year, he published his second monograph called Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity with was over early quantum mechanics and its history (Bird). -
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Thomas Kuhn (1983 - Death)
Kuhn was named the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT in 1983. Thomas Kuhn continued his work on understanding and interpreting the history and philosophy of science till his death in 1996 (Bird).