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	Thomas Samuel Kuhn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
		Kuhn was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954, and in 1982 was awarded the George Sarton Medal in the History of Science.
		In contrast to Kuhn, Althusser's conception of science is that it is cumulative, even though this cumulativity is discontinuous (see his concept of "epistemological break") whereas Kuhn considers various paradigms as incommensurable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Kuhn (650 words)

	Thomas Samuel Kuhn Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kuhn obtained his Ph.D in physics from Harvard University in 1949, and taught a course in the history of science at Harvard from 1948 to 1956.
		Kuhn is very often interpreted by post modern and post structuralist thinkers as having undermined the enterprise of science by showing that scientific knowledge is dependent on the culture of groups of scientists rather than on adherence to a specific, definable method.
		Kuhn’s work has also been interpreted as blurring the demarcation between scientific and non-scientific enterprises because it describes scientific progress without reference to an idealised scientific method that can be used to distinguish science from non-science.
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	Thomas Kuhn
		Kuhn argued that a scientific revolution is a noncumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.
		Kuhn suggested that questions about whether a discipline is or is not a science can be answered only when members of a scholarly community who doubt their status achieve consensus about their past and present accomplishments.
		Thomas Kuhn was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1954 and was awarded the George Sarton Medal in the History of Science in 1982.
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	Talk:Thomas Samuel Kuhn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kuhn also stressed the importance of incommensurability among paradigms, meaning that science from one paradigm cannot have a greater or lesser truth-value than science from another.
		According to Kuhn, theories in in the next paradigm, whether it begins in five years or five-hundred years, will be no more truth-like than the theories we have now; they will, in fact, be incommensurable.
		In the autobiographical interview conducted in 1995, and published in The Road Since Structure (2000), Kuhn describes his "philosophical problematic" as focussing on incommensurability: that, in short, is why there are punctuations in paradigm change.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Thomas_Samuel_Kuhn (926 words)

	Thomas Kuhn
		Kuhn himself repudiated such ideas and his work makes it clear that the factors determining the outcome of a scientific dispute, particularly in modern science, are almost always to be found within science, specifically in connexion with the puzzle-solving power of the competing ideas.
		Kuhn's challenge to it lay not in rejecting the anti-realism implicit in the view that theories do not refer to the world but rather in undermining the assumption that the relationship of observation sentence to the world is unproblematic.
		Kuhn supposes that individual differences are normally distributed and that a judgment corresponding to the mean of the distribution will also correspond to the judgment that would, hypothetically, be demanded by the rules of scientific method, as traditionally conceived (1977c, 333).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/thomas-kuhn (10597 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Thomas Samuel Kuhn - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 - June 17, 1996) wrote extensively on the history of science, and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
		Kuhn's analysis of the history of science suggests to him that the practice of science comes in three phases.
		Kuhn explains that normal science is what scientists spend most of their careers doing.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thomas_Samuel_Kuhn (1154 words)

	Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions
		Kuhn maintained that the (then) standard way of studying the history of science was based on the idea that science progresses by cumulative advances made by individual scientists.
		Beyond the concept of paradigms, Kuhn is perhaps most significant for his underlying general contribution to the discussion of the authority of science, and the social character of scientific advancement.
		Kuhn maintained that the traditional notion of scientific progress (distinct discoveries by individual scientists) was incorrect because real advances only occur over a period of time in group interaction.
	userwww.service.emory.edu /~mhalber/Research/Guides/kuhn.html (1151 words)

	Next Generation
		Kuhn’s strategies and his accounts related to concept representation – the key conceptual changes that occur during a scientific revolution – are found in the section titled “Incommensurability.” Concepts lead to the production of hypotheses and theories.
		Kuhn's work attempts to show that incommensurable paradigms can be rationally compared by revealing the compatability of attribute lists of say a species outlined in a pre-Darwinian and a post-Darwinian milieu accounted for in two incommensurable taxonomies, and that this compatability is the platform for rational comparison between rival taxonomies (Barker 230-231).
		Kuhn's work was influencial for rhetoricians, sociologists, and historians (and, in a more muted way, philosophers) for the development of a rhetorical perspective.
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	Radical Faith - exploring faith in a changed world
		Kuhn saw beyond the received wisdom about science and realised that far from being an accumulation of knowledge, it is better characterised as a series of revolutions which replace the received wisdom of normal science.
		Kuhn uses the well-known instance of Copernicus' hypothesis that the earth revolves around the sun - a suggestion which contradicted the received Ptolemaic theory that the sun, the planets and the stars revolve around the earth.
		Kuhn responded to charges of relativism in a 1969 Postscript to his book by suggesting that all scientists, regardless of the normal scientific paradigms they employ, are essentially puzzle-solvers.
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	Thomas Kuhn - Obituary
		Thomas S. Kuhn, whose theory of sclentific revolution became a profoundly influential landmark of 20th-century intellectual history, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
		Kuhn, a professor of philosophy and history of science at M.I.T. from 1979 to 1983 and the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy there from 1983 until 1991, was the author or co-author of five books and scores of articles on the philosophy and history of science.
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn, the son of Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial engineer, and the former Annette Stroock, was born on July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/kuhnobit.html (937 words)

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		Kuhn’s crisis theory is that, use what went wrong in the exemplar, the anomaly, and create a new exemplar.
		Kuhn argued that the typical scientist was not an objective, free thinker and skeptic.
		Kuhn's theory is widely used in the Democratic party, which is to learn what is wrong in the government and change it (The Tech).
	www.cs.ucr.edu /~khanhvo/hist104c.html (687 words)

	The Historical and Pedagogic Relevance of the Dunn-Allen Debate: A Comment
		To defend his position, Thomas Kuhn, in the absence of the almighty internet, had to leave Harvard University to travel across the Atlantic Ocean, with due respect for his older opponent, to Bedford College, where the older professor was the Chair and unrivaled guru of philosophy in Europe.
		That event was a debate between a historian of science (Dr. Thomas Samuel Kuhn of Harvard University) and a philosopher of science (Dr. Karl Raimund Popper of the University of London) that resulted from their important books on the philosophy and methodology of science.
		Kuhn, Thomas (1970) The Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?In: Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
	www.theperspective.org /articles/0103200601.html (2134 words)

	Thomas S. Kuhn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kuhn was the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a seminal work on the nature of scientific change and was widely celebrated as a central figure in contemporary thought about how the scientific process evolves.
		Kuhn, the article says, "was working toward his doctorate in physics at Harvard University when he was asked to teach some science to undergraduate humanities majors.
		Kuhn is survived by his wife, Jehane R. Kuhn; two daughters, Sarah Kuhn of Framingham, Mass., and Elizabeth Kuhn of Los Angles: a son, Nathaniel S. Kuhn of Arlington, Mass.; a brother, Roger S. Kuhn of Bethesda, Md.; and four grandchildren, Emma Kuhn LaChance, Samuel Kuhn LaChance, Gabrielle Gui-Ying Kuhn, and Benjamin Simon Kuhn.
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	21st Century Masters - Thomas Kuhn
		Thomas Kuhn - With the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, Thomas Samuel Kuhn...
		With the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, Thomas Samuel Kuhn inaugurated a new epoch in the understanding of science.
		Conant became Kuhn's mentor and was responsible for persuading him to teach in the General Education in Science program, where he honed the theses of Structure, which is dedicated to Conant.
	www.21stcentury.co.uk /masters/thomas_kuhn.asp (669 words)

	ipedia.com: Thomas Samuel Kuhn Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
		Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial...
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18 1922-June 17 1996) wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
	www.ipedia.com /thomas_samuel_kuhn.html (343 words)

	Thomas Samuel Kuhn Biography / Biography of Thomas Samuel Kuhn World of Sociology Biography
		Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science.
		Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1922, Thomas Kuhn was trained as a physicist but became an educator after receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1949.
		Kuhn was best known for debunking the common belief that science develops by the accumulation of individual discoveries.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-samuel-kuhn-soc (253 words)

	MavicaNET - Kuhn, Thomas S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Where once the history of science was seen as a steady progression where theory is added to theory until the truth is found, Kuhn saw a series of revolutionary changes of the world-view of science, where the view of one period had very little in common with the previous.
		A chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
		Two influential philosophical approaches of scientific theories: the ideas of Thomas Kuhn and the structuralist approach of science.
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	Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Kuhn, 73; Devised Science Paradigm [Obituary] By Lawrence Van Gelder Thomas S. Kuhn, whose theory of sclentific revolution became a profoundly influential landmark of 20th-century intellectual history, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
		But Dr. Kuhn remained best known for "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." His thesis was that science was not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge.
		You're the first person I ever heard use 'paradigm' in real life." Professor Kuhn traced the origin of his thesis to a moment in 1947 when he was working toward a doctorate in physics at Harvard.
	www.sal.wisc.edu /~sobolpg/kuhn.htm (953 words)

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		Thomas Kuhn Thomas Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States...
		Kuhn’s dissatisfaction with his own legend Kuhn was greatly disappointed that even most of those well-disposed toward him misconstrued his work, and he found it necessary to dissociate himself from many of his self-appointed followers, but this does not..
		Kuhn is only seriously open to construal as a Relativist, irrationalist or idealist if one supposes that must take the the received view as one’s starting point, and then construes Kuhn’s writings as if they were designed to satisfy the requirements of t..
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	Positivist and Hermeneutic Paradigms: A Critical Evaluation under the Structure of Scientific Practice
		Kuhn’s work is considered to be one of the most important contributions in the field of philosophy of science.
		According to Kuhn, when a paradigm change occurs, "the scientist’s perception of his environment must be re-educated… [Thus,] the world of his research will seem, here and there, incommensurable with the one he had inhibited before" [Kuhn 1996, 112].
		Kuhn’s notion of the incommensurability of paradigms is a very peculiar one.
	f.students.umkc.edu /fkfc8/PosHermSSP.htm (2975 words)

	Kuhn, Thomas Samuel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He subsequently taught at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (until 1964), Princeton (until 1979), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (until 1991).
		Kuhn held the abandoned paradigm and the embraced one to be “incommensurable” with one another such that the fundamental concepts of one cannot be rendered by the terms of the other.
		Kuhn’s other works include The Copernican Revolution (1957) and The Essential Tension (1977).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ku/Kuhn-Tho.html (244 words)

	Thomas Samuel Kuhn
		He received a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1949 and remained there as an assistant professor of general education and history of science.
		In 1956, Kuhn accepted a post at the University of California-Berkeley, where in 1961 he became a full professor of history of science.
		Kuhn also took issue with Karl Popper's view of theory-testing through falsification.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/thomas-samuel-kuhn.php (1156 words)

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