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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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