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Thomas Kuhn Born
Thomas Kuhn is an American Philosopher who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had an interest in history and physics, more specific into the history of physics. He went to Harvard University were he gain a masters degree and a doctorate in physics. -
Future in Harvard
After obtaining his PHD in 1946, he got accepted to the Society of Fellows of Harvard. There he starting teaching a class on Humanities for undergraduates. It is there where he started learning about the works of Aristotle. This experience paint the way to the philosopher he became. He work at Harvard until 1956. -
The Copernicus Revolution Source
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution : Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Harvard University Press, 1957. -
The Copernicus Revolution
Thomas Kuhn published his first book in 1957 called The Copernicus Revolution. In this book he talk about Copernicus ideas and theories on how the earth is not the center of the universe but is in a planetary rotation around the sun. He distinguished his Copernicus ideas to be a break through on new ways to view science and helping future scientist like Newton come up with more accurate measures of the universe. -
Thomas Kuhn Video
In this Video it will give a explanation to Kuhn major work The Structure of Scientific Revolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8 -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn second contribution established his name as one of the greats in philosophy and in 1962 he published the The Structure of Scientific Revolution. It was published in “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science" he discussed the paradigm shift which is the phenomenon of change that occurs in science when changing theories and experiments to create a better understanding of what is being explained. -
Kuhn vs Popper
In 1965 Kuhn and Popper both debated in who's idea was more methodological to the science community. This debate happen in International Colloquium in London. Popper view on Theories is having to replace them with new kinds and forget. Kuhn debated that with paradigm it is about one timeline and understanding theories to have a change happen. Kuhn turn out to be a more accurate representation to science revolution and gave him a bigger notice as a philosopher. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition)
After the debate between Popper in 1965 Thomas Kuhn published the book The Structure of Scientific Revolution. In the Book he reflects on a more specific meaning to paradigm. It was a answer to critics who said his paradigm idea was to open to have a conclusive meaning to the scientific community.