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Thomas Kuhn

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Also known as Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Thomas S. Kuhn

American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)

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Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) was an American physicist, philosopher of science, and university teacher. Born in Cincinnati, he died of lung cancer in Cambridge. He was educated at the Taft School and Harvard University. Kuhn held positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. His notable work includes *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions*.

Kuhn worked in the fields of philosophy of science, analytic philosophy, and history of science. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the George Sarton Medal. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Academy of the History of Science. He spoke English.

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Person · Open Library

Works
31

Top works

  • On the Philosophy and Religion
  • Fuhrungsethik in Organisationen
  • Einführung in Die Volkswirtschaftslehre
  • Arbeitsbuch Zur Einführung in Die Volkswirtschaftslehre
  • Ethik der gestaltbaren Zahlen

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1965-01-07
dieter thomas kuhngerman

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
51
Total plays
204

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

    · 2001 · cited 163,298x

  2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,252x

  3. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

    · 2015 · cited 59,975x

  4. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,115x

  5. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

    · 2004 · cited 44,354x

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Quotes

  • “If a demarcation criterion exists (we must not, I think, seek a sharp or decisive one), it may lie just in that part of science which Sir Karl ignores.”
  • “Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.”
  • “I suggest that scientific knowledge, though logically more articulate and far more complex, is of this sort. The books and teachers from whom it is acquired present concrete examples together with a multitude of theoretical generalizations. Both are essential carriers of knowledge, and it is therefore Pickwickian to seek a methodological criterion that supposes the scientist can specify in advance whether each imaginable instance fits or would falsify his theory.”
  • “Somehow, the practice of astronomy, physics, chemistry or biology normally fails to evoke the controversies over fundamentals that today seem endemic among, say, psychologists or sociologists. Attempting to discover the source of that difference led me to recognize the role in scientific research of what I have since called “paradigms.” These I take to be universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners.”
  • “History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”
  • “Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That choice, however, makes it difficult to see scientific development as a process of accretion.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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 Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, popularizing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

Kuhn made several 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. Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, there is no one-to-one correspondence of assumptions and terms. Thus, our comprehension of science can never rely wholly upon "objectivity" alone. Science must account for subjective perspectives as well, since all objective conclusions are ultimately founded upon the subjective conditioning/worldview of its researchers and participants.

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