Thomas Kuhn
| Thomas Kuhn | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Thomas |
| Last Name | Kuhn |
| Wikipedia | Thomas Kuhn |
| wikidata | [[wikidata:{{{wikidata}}}|{{{wikidata}}}]] |
| Gender | Male |
| Birthday | July 18, 1922 |
| Died | June 17, 1996 |
This person's name is Thomas Kuhn.
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A historian of science.
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Thomas Kuhn's book on The Structure of Scientific Revolution[1],[2] is a well known classic since late 20th century. The ideas in the book provides a framework to deal with data management at many scales. Having been trained as a theoretical physicist, Kuhn was well-versed in both physical science and the social dynamics amongst scientific community members. This insight across multiple layers provides him with a way to articulate the structural patterns of scientific revolutions. It is important to note that he explicitly stated that revolutions in plural form. This means that revolutions will happen many times over.
Applications of Kuhn's Work
One of the more famous idea about Kuhn's work is Kuhn Cycle. This idea directly maps to the DevOps cycles of modern information technology infrastructures. The idea about data dictionary in software engineering can be related to Kuhn's notion of incommensurability. Therefore, creating a living dictionary that keeps evolving and allows many participants to define its terms overtime, continuously, is similar to what MediaWiki, Wikipedia and Wikimedia as concrete operationalized cases that fit Kuhn's abstract framework.
References
- ↑ Kuhn, Thomas (2012). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary ed.). local page: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-45811-3.
- ↑ Kuhn, Thomas (2012). 科学革命的结构. Translated by 金吾伦; 胡新和 (4th ed.). local page: 北京大学出版社. ISBN 978-7-301-21426-8.