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The Copernican Revolution
One of Kuhn’s earliest works which attributed to the framework of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In this book he branched outside of Conant’s General Education in Science mindset. This book detailed the problems with Ptolemaic system and the Copernicus solution. Kuhn, Thomas S, The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought, Harvard University Press, 1957. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kuhn published a revolutionary theory detailing changes in science and its patterns. This was a carefully researched topic with exceptionally well explained process of change. Kuhn, Thomas S, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1962. https://youtu.be/3cp6pEzx3uw -
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Slight revisions to “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” for its 2nd edition, in addition to the clarification of the term paradigm. This was done to respond to critics and reinforce the purpose that paradigm was used in regards to the “exemplar” for the puzzle solving model. Bird, Alexander. "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Accessed 2 December 2021 -
The Essential Tension
A collection of Kuhn’s earliest essays in philosophy and history were taken to help reinforce the importance of tradition in science. Bird, Alexander. "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Accessed 2 December 2021 -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
Kuhn historical work turn to early quantum theories. Kuhn was concern with the Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity which suggests particle could possess any energy in a continuous range and if it changes energy it does so in a continuous. Modern quantum theory has since denied these claims. Bird, Alexander. "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Accessed 2 December 2021 -
Kuhn's final work
In Kuhn’s later years he worked on a variety of different subjects from history to philosophy of science. Additionally, he was continuously developing and expanding on his term of incommensurability. At the time of his death he was also working on a philosophical dealing with evolution and developmental psychology. Bird, Alexander. "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Accessed 2 December 2021