Thomas S. Kuhn (Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions)

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Thomas S. Kuhn

Born

in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States

July 18, 1922

Died

June 17, 1996

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Science, Philosophy

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American historian and philosopher of science, a leading contributor to the change of focus in the philosophy and sociology of science in the 1960s. Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a doctorate in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1949. But he later shifted his interest to the history and philosophy of science, which he taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which depicted the development of the basic natural sciences in an innovative way. According to Kuhn, the sciences do not uniformly progress strictly by scientific method. Rather, there are t ...more

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	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 4.03 avg rating — 28,801 ratings — published 1962 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought 4.12 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 1957 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change 4.04 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview by Thomas S. Kuhn, James Conant (Editor), John Haugeland (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 4.23 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	驴Qu茅 son las revoluciones cient铆ficas? y otros ensayos by Thomas S. Kuhn, Jos茅 Roma Feito (Translator), Manuel Cruz (Series Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science by Thomas S. Kuhn, Bojana Mladenovic (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trouble with the Historical Philosophy of Science 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sources for History of Quantum Physics 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dogma contro critica: Mondi possibili nella storia della scienza by Thomas S. Kuhn, Stefano Gattei (Redattore) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn

tags: articulation, perspective, questions-and-answers

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