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Taught Philosophy of science
After obtaining his PhD in history of science in 1949, he was offered to teach at Harvard. He taught there from 1951-1956. After that he taught at the University of California from 1956-1964. Next he taught at Princeton University from 1964-1979. Lastly he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of technology from 1979-1991. Parrott-Sheffer., Chelsey. “Thomas S. Kuhn.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. -
The Copernican Revolution
This book talks about the heliocentric theory of the solar system, specifically during the Renaissance. The heliocentric theory is the theory that everything in our solar system revolves around the sun, which is the central point of the solar system. Parrott-Sheffer., Chelsey. “Thomas S. Kuhn.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This book focuses on one component of the disciplinary matrix. This book is when he talks about paradigms. He uses this term as something that “consists of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methods (Bird).” The link below is a video that talks about Kuhn’s Cycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8cCDtVd5w Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#CritInfl. -
The Essential Tension
This book talks about the importance of tradition in science. This book is a collection of Kuhn’s essays. The main purpose of this book is to explain and defend the theses that he included in “The Essential Tension”. “The Essential Tension.” 1980HisSc..18...68W Page 68, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980HisSc..18...68W#:~:text=The%20essential%20tension%20is%20a,their%20own%20feet%20quite%20well. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
This book focuses on the history of early quantum mechanics.