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Thomas Kuhn

Philosophy of Science

Thomas Samuel Kuhn, born 18 July 1922 and died 17 June 1996, was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1922 1
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1922-07-18 1
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1996 1
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1996-06-17 1
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Source Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Source Commensurability (philosophy of science) (Wikipedia)
Additional Source Thomas Kuhn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles.
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    Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 - June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles.
  • In Branch: Philosophy of Science, Infobox: main_interests
    Philosophy of science History of science
  • In Tradition: Analytic Philosophy, Infobox: school_tradition
    Analytic Historical turn Historiographical externalism
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    Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922, June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles.
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Thomas Kuhn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Associated With: Incommensurability of Scientific Paradigms
Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Associated With: Falsificationism, Karl Popper, Life, on Kuhn
Quote, Associated With: Falsificationism, Karl Popper, Life, on Kuhn
This was superseded in the eyes of many by the socio-historical approach taken by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
Commensurability (philosophy of science) (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Incommensurability of Scientific Paradigms, Lead
Quote, Associated With: Incommensurability of Scientific Paradigms, Lead
Discussed by Ludwik Fleck in the 1930s, and popularized by Thomas Kuhn in the 1960s, the problem of incommensurability results in scientists talking past each other, as it were,
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