Thomas Kuhn
Where was Thomas Khun from?
United States (American)
What is the name of Kuhn's Book
what is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Who leads revolutions, and who resists?
Younger sientists led revolutions, while older scientists restist.
What is Science (according to Thomas Khun)?
a social practice, not just an individual discorvery
What professions did he have?
Historian and Philosopher of Science
What is the traditional belief of science?
The continouos progress and steady accumulation of truth
What is a Paradigm shift?
When scientists start seeing the world differently
How do scientists learn?
they learn through communities, labs, universities, and journals.
Where was Thomas Khun educated
What is Harvard
What was the difference between Copernicus and Ptolemy?
Copernicus was sun-centered, while Ptolemy was earth-centered
When does a Revolution happen?
happens when a new framework better explains the evidence
What does each community have
nthey have, norms traditions, and standard
Where did Thomas Khun teach?
Berkley, Princeton, and MIT
What was Kuhn's discovery?
History shows sudden, revolutionary changes, not smooth evolution
What are anomalies?
discoveries that don't fit current theories, overtime they cause conflict known as "science conflict"
What are some of Thomas Khun's famous works?
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) and The Copernican Revolution
What was the lesson of Kuhn's book?
Past scientists werent inherently wrong, they just worked within different paradigms
Why is a paradigm shift difficult?
It is hard for scientists to abandon what they've always known