Juan V. Mayoral was born in Guadalajara, Spain, in 1971. In 1996, he obtained his BA in Humanities (University of Castilla-La Mancha), which was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize (highest marks, Class of 1996). He specialized in philosophy of science at the graduate school, at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He pursued his PhD thesis under the supervision of Carlos Solís, a renowned Spanish historian of science and a scholar of Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy. In 2004, he obtained his Doctoral degree from UNED, and received the Extraordinary Prize. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, he is now associate professor at the Unidad Predepartamental de Filosofía, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
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Thomas Kuhn
Juan V. Mayoral
This new biography of Thomas S. Kuhn pays attention to the continuous development of his ideas. Mayoral provides a comprehensive overview of Kuhn's life and work. The book explores how Kuhn’s theory develops from its beginnings at Harvard University in the early 1950s through the early 1990s at the MIT and also describes Kuhn's parallel lifetime. Between those decades (1950s and 1990s), Kuhn went through different academic institutions, obtained a high status as a public intellectual, and...
