Thomas Kuhn

Adam Timmins (University of Loughborough)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 18 Jul 1922
Died 17 Jun 1996
Activity 1942-1996

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Historian / Chronicler
Philosopher
Scientist
Social scientist

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Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), was a historian turned philosopher of science whose seminal work

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

inspired a conceptual revolution away from logical positivism towards what has been called the “historicist turn” in the philosophy of science. Unusually for a book dealing with the philosophy of science, it has had a wide-ranging impact upon many other disciplines, including the social sciences, and has been named one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on 18 July 1922. He attended Harvard University in 1940, and chose to major in physics instead of mathematics due to what he felt were greater career opportunities in the former. He graduated summa cum lauda in 1943, and spent the next two years working in the

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Citation: Timmins, Adam . "Thomas Kuhn". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2565, accessed 27 November 2024.]