Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/kuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific...
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University of London's International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper engaged in a debate that circled around three main areas...
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Paradigm shift (redirect from Scientific revolution (Thomas Kuhn))
the common lexicon by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Even though Kuhn restricted the use of the term to the natural sciences, the...
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Kuhn is a surname of German origin. It may refer to the following: Abraham Kuhn (banker) (1819–1892), German-American founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Abraham...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (redirect from Exemplar (Kuhn))
by the philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Kuhn challenged the then...
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Philosophy of science (section Thomas Kuhn)
helped establish a modern set of standards for scientific methodology. Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was also formative...
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the history and philosophy of science to Thomas Kuhn's 1962 work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Kuhn suggests that certain scientific works,...
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Thomas E. Kuhn is an American politician from Michigan who has represented the 57th district in the Michigan House of Representatives since the 2022 election...
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Relativism (section Thomas Kuhn)
behind allegedly neutral facts, "blunts choices and imposes laws". Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science, as expressed in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions...
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way amenable to falsification. In 1965, Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn had a debate as Thomas Kuhn's theory did not incorporate this idea of falsification...
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historian Thomas Kuhn raised some philosophical objections to claims of the possibility of scientific understanding being truly objective. In Kuhn's analysis...
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Marxism and other class based social philosophies, before the writings of Thomas Kuhn and others made relativism a mainstream doctrine. In the Misesian sense...
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Logical positivism (section Kuhn)
trenchantly by Willard Van Orman Quine, Norwood Hanson, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Carl Hempel.[citation needed] Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by...
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the other. Discussed by Ludwik Fleck in the 1930s, and popularized by Thomas Kuhn in the 1960s, the problem of incommensurability results in scientists...
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inadequacies in those of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. "Nonetheless, Lakatos did recognize the force of Kuhn's historical criticism of Popper – all important...
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Chapters 3 and 4 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery. The philosopher Thomas Kuhn writes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) that he places...
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Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912 (category Books by Thomas Kuhn)
philosopher Thomas Kuhn, in which the author surveys the development of quantum mechanics. The second edition has a new afterword. Kuhn surveys the development...
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was reluctant to publish his work due to a crippling fear of ridicule. Thomas Kuhn argued that Copernicus only transferred "some properties to the Sun's...
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supposedly unchanging heavens further undermined the Aristotelian view. Thomas Kuhn saw scientists' new ability to see change in the 'incorruptible' heavens...
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Plantinga William Lane Craig Nicholas Wolterstorff Science Paul Feyerabend Thomas Kuhn Karl Popper Stanford School Nancy Cartwright John Dupré Peter Galison...
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scientific theory is whether what it says about observable entities is true. Thomas Kuhn argued that the process of observation and evaluation takes place within...
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shared evidence if different scientists do not share these assumptions. Thomas Kuhn is an important advocate of the position that theory-ladenness concerning...
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an extensive revival in Germany by, for example, Guildo Horn, Dieter Thomas Kuhn, Michelle, and Petra Perle. Dance clubs would play a stretch of schlager...
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ISBN 1588114171. Thomas Kuhn formally stated this need for the "norms for rational theory choice". One of his discussions is reprinted in Thomas S Kuhn (2000)....
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1960s and 1970s numerous influential philosophers of science such as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend had questioned the universality of the "scientific...
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significant philosopher of science. He is often mentioned alongside Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and N.R. Hanson as a crucial figure in the historical...
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including by philosophers who did not completely agree with Popper, such as Thomas Kuhn and Horace Romano Harré. The psychiatrist Carl Jung, founder of analytical...
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advisor McGeorge Bundy, Jf '48; historian and philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, Jf '51; linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, Jf '55; biologist E. O....
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challenging the infallibility and objectivity of empirical observation. Thomas Kuhn's landmark book of 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions—which...
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change over time, much as in Thomas Kuhn's later notion of the "paradigm shift" (on the possible influence of Fleck on Kuhn see) and in Michel Foucault's...
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