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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
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He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Harvard University.
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Kuhn completed his Master of Arts degree in physics from Harvard. -
He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard with a dissertation titled "The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of Their Atomic Quantum Defects." -
Kuhn served as an assistant professor of general education and as an associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University. -
Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God. -
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was published, which introduced the concept of paradigm shifts and had a profound impact on the philosophy of science. -
Kuhn became a full professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he continued his work in the philosophy of science. -
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He published "The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change," a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of science. -
Thomas Kuhn's contribution to the philosophy of science primarily revolves around his groundbreaking work, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," which introduced the concept of paradigm shifts. Kuhn challenged the prevailing view that scientific progress occurs through a gradual accumulation of knowledge, instead arguing that it happens through revolutionary changes in thought and practice.
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Thomas Kuhn passed away on June 17, 1996, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 73
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8
The video summaries of Kuhn's position in the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."