KUHN, Thomas, (1922-), philosopher of science. Kuhn was originally a student of theoretical physics before turning to the history of his discipline while a junior fellow at Harvard University. His groundrbreaking work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions began as a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston in 1951, which he developed from 1958-59 while at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences. It was published as a volume in the International Encyclopaedia of the Unified Sciences in 1962 and followed The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957).
Analytic philosophy and the Vienna Circle