Thomas Samuel Kuhn Paradigm
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn received his Ph.D. in physics in 1949, and in 1961 became a full professor in the history of science (Payne, 2004). Later he became a professor of philosophy and history of science, and his most renowned work was The Structure of Scientific Revolution, written while he was a graduate student in theoretical physics at Harvard (Thomas, 2004). In this book he argued that science "is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions" (Thomas, 2004). Kuhn believed that science developed in three stages (Payne, 2004). In the first stage, which he called "pre-paradigm science," people trying to understand a certain phenomenon share no common background theory, and so little progress is made. At some point, someone develops an explanation for the phenomenon which seems to have substance and is powe
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