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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is still one of the most cited pieces of scientific work even today. This book showed his philosophy of how the development of science is driven, in periods of science Kuhn would call a "Paradigm". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPsc55zsXA -
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
In these two books Thomas Kuhn, publishes several of his research articles which stated his positions on the philosophy of science as well as defended them, and Karl Popper refuted his points using his own ideas and research. -
The Essential Tension
During the time this book was published it was hotly debated on what was the cause of scientific advancement. The popular idea at the time was that science progresses through unrestricted imagination and divergent thinking. However, Kuhn proposed that this kind of thinking is only partly responsible for scientific advancement, and that a strict adherence to traditionalism and convergent thinking played a key role. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
This book had shocked many readers, due to the lack of mentioning paradigms or incommensurability. Kuhn argued that he did not ignore those ideas, but that those ideas where implicit in his argument. Kuhn also argues that the modern understanding of quantum physics was not even discovered by Planck rather it was already known by Einstein.