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Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influenti...

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 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.
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, they are competing and irreconcilable accounts of reality. 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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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    • Book
    • By Thomas S. Kuhn
    • 1962
  • The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
    • Book
    • By Thomas S. Kuhn
    • 1957
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, the Copernican Revolution
    • Book
    • By Thomas S. Kuhn
    • May 25, 2010
  • Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science
    • Book
    • By Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul Hoyningen-Huene
    • May 15, 1993
  • The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview
    • Book
    • By Thomas S. Kuhn
    • 1993
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Philosophy of Science Philosophy Natural Science Physics
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