Thomas kuhn biography
Thomas kuhn biography
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Thomas Kuhn
Not to be confused with Thomas Kuhn (Michigan politician).
American philosopher of science (1922–1996)
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Kuhn in 1973 | |
| Born | Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-07-18)July 18, 1922 Cincinnati, Ohio, US |
| Died | June 17, 1996(1996-06-17) (aged 73) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Education | Harvard University (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Historical turn[1] Historiographical externalism[2] |
| Institutions | Harvard University University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of Their Atomic Quantum Defects |
Main interests | Philosophy of science History of science |
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Re