| Thomas Kuhn was born in 1922 and died in 1996.
He was the author of "The structure of
scientific Revolutions" in 1962, a work which defined and
popularised the the concept of the paradigm.
The focus of the work was the history of science,
however Kuhn's view's on paradigm theory have been very
influential in a number of other fields.
In the preface of his work, Kuhn acknowledges a
debt to a number of sources unrelated to the history of science
including, Piaget and his views on the changing world-view of the
growing child, the gestalt psychologists and the psychology of
perception, Benjamin Whorf and his
speculations on the effect of language on world-view, the
philosophy of W Quine, and a monograph of Ludwik Fleck.
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