Background
KUHN, Thomas was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Louis and Minette (nee Stroock) Kuhn.
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La influencia que ha ejercido el pensamiento de Thomas S. Kuhn no se limita a lo que podríamos llamar la sociología de la ciencia: sus contribuciones han determinado cambios incluso en el modo de considerar la historia y las ciencias sociales.
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English summary: In this work, the author tells the story of the extraordinary upheaval following Copernicus's discovery that the Earth was not the center of the universe and, further, that it moved within celestial space. This book analyzes the resulting multiple transformations within the fields of mathematical astronomy, cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion, to highlight just how intertwined these fields have always been. French description: 1543: Copernic divulgue ses nouvelles theories astronomiques et affirme que, d'une part la Terre n'occupe pas, au centre de l'univers, une place unique et privilegiee et que, d'autre part, elle se deplace dans l'espace celeste. Thomas S. Kuhn raconte dans cet ouvrage, par le menu, l'extraordinaire bouleversement decoulant d'une telle decouverte. En effet, bien que le mot revolution soit au singulier, l'evenement fut multiple. Son noyau etait une transformation de l'astronomie mathematique, mais qui embrassait des changements d'ordre conceptuel en cosmologie, en physique, en philosophie aussi bien qu'en matiere de religion. A cause de ce caractere, la revolution copernicienne offre une excellente occasion de decouvrir comment, et avec quelles consequences, les concepts de plusieurs champs differents de la connaissance se trouvent intimement meles dans un canevas. La plus grande originalite du present ouvrage tient donc a sa volonte de decouvrir la signification du caractere multiple de la revolution copernicienne, qui se traduit par une constante transgression des frontieres etablies entre la science, l' histoire ou la philosophie .
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Cuando los paradigmas científicos dejan de dar respuesta a los problemas que les atañen, ocurren rupturas violentas en las que la ciencia se revoluciona, destruye los paradigmas desgastados y los sustituye con otros nuevos. Thomas S. Kuhn analiza en esta obra "el comportamiento de las comunidades científicas encargadas de seleccionar el modo más apto de practicar la ciencia futura" tras esos momentos de crisis.
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(Cuando los paradigmas científicos dejan de dar respuesta ...)
Cuando los paradigmas científicos dejan de dar respuesta a los problemas que les atañen, ocurren rupturas violentas en las que la ciencia se revoluciona, destruye los paradigmas desgastados y los sustituye con otros nuevos. Thomas S. Kuhn analiza en esta obra "el comportamiento de las comunidades científicas encargadas de seleccionar el modo más apto de practicar la ciencia futura" tras esos momentos de crisis.
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KUHN, Thomas was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Louis and Minette (nee Stroock) Kuhn.
Harvard College, Harvard University.
Fellow, Harvard 1948-1951, Instructor and Assistant Professor 1951-1956. Assistant Professor, Association Professor, and Professor, University of California (Berkeley) 1957-1964. Professor, and M. Taylor Pine Professor, Princeton 1964-1979.
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1979-1983, Laurance South. Rockefeller Professor, of Philosophy since 1983.
Guggenheim Fellow 1954-1955. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow 1958-1959., President, History of Science Society 1968-1970, Philosophy of Science Association 1979-1980.
In 1962 Kuhn published his landmark book on scientific revolutions, which was eventually translated into 16 languages and sold over a million copies.
His controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. He found that basic ideas about how nature should be studied were dogmatically accepted in normal science, increasingly questioned, and overthrown during scientific revolutions.
Kuhn made several notable claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic "paradigm shifts" rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way, and that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before; and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be established solely by objective criteria but is defined by a consensus of a scientific community.
A member of many professional organizations, he was president of the History of Science Society from 1968 to 1970.
He received the Howard T. Behrman award at Princeton in 1977 and the George Sarton medal from the History of Science Society in 1982.
In honor of his legacy, the "Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award" is awarded by the American Chemical Society to speakers who present original views that are at odds with mainstream scientific understanding.
(Cuando los paradigmas científicos dejan de dar respuesta ...)
(Cuando los paradigmas científicos dejan de dar respuesta ...)
(English summary: In this work, the author tells the story...)
(La influencia que ha ejercido el pensamiento de Thomas S....)
Institute for Advanced Study 1972-1979, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, North.A.S.
Married 1st Kathryn Louise Muhs in 1948 (divorced in 1978). Married 2nd Jehane Robin Bums in 1982.
