Thomas Samuel Kuhn Essays

  • Rhetorical Analysis: Is Google Making USupid?

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    appeal to the current model of society on how we found information and the claim of this article after thirteen year of the article being published still holds merit as our society is going through a paradigm shift. In 1962 Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolution, Kuhn states that a paradigm shift is a change from one way of thought to another. Nicholas Carr said “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries

  • Evaluating Kuhn´s Theory of Scientific Development

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    history and philosophy of science. One of such is the Kuhn theory of science development postulated by Thomas Kuhn. His theory brought about a new perspective where scientific theories are placed in an umbrella of a grand theory called the paradigm. Thomas Kuhn who was born in 1922 in Cincinnati, studied physics at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude in 1943, applied his knowledge of quantum physics to humanities of science developing the Kuhn theory of science development (Bird, 2012). Although,

  • Evaluate Kuhn’s theory of scientific development

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    Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America. He studied and worked at Harvard, Kuhn was initially a physicist but later changed courses to study the history of science. While a student at Harvard Kuhn wrote the book the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Paradigm Shift. In this book, Kuhn changed the view of scientific progress and his theory has been by far the most important and influential theory of the history of science since its publication

  • Management in Community Policing

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    Supervisory Perspective of Community Policing." Community Policing Exchange. July/August 1995. Internet. http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/cpe0795.txt Walker, Samuel. "Does Anyone Remember Team Policing? Lessons of the Team Policing Experience for Community Policing." American Journal of Police. 12.1 (1993): 33-55. Winfree Jr., L. Thomas; & Newbold, Greg. "Community Policing and the New Zealand Police: Correlates of Attitudes Toward the Work World in a Community-Oriented National Police Organization