More discussions of Kuhn's ideas, their influence, and their problems:

 

A short piece in which an engineer argues that Kuhn's conception of a 'paradigm' is broadly useful in understanding changes in culture and society: http://www.ee.scu.edu/eefac/healy/kuhn.html

 

 

For an example of the way Kuhn's influence is celebrated as a kind of liberation look at the brief review by Daniel Moloney in the religious journal First Things at http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0003/articles/kuhn.html.

 

 

Kuhn's New York Times obituary, which briefly discusses his influence, is online at http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/kuhnobit.html.

 

If you are feeling ambitious, there are a number of rather advanced discussions in the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Kuhn's ideas are central to the following articles:

 

"Scientific Realism" at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/

 

"Historicist Theories of Rationality" at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-historicist/

 

"Scientific Progress" at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-progress/ 

 

And, of course, “Thomas Kuhn” at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

 

 

There is a huge multi-part article on relativism that begins at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/ .  Kuhn's ideas are introduced in connection with a number of relativistic ideas, but perhaps the best place to start is at the discussion of the claim that beliefs are relative to "scientific frameworks" at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/#3.6.1 .  From here you can follow internal links to discussions of the 'theory-ladeness of perception' and 'incommensurability'. 

 

If you don't look at anything else from the Stanford Encyclopedia, look at the supplement to the article on relativism called "Relativism and the Constructive Aspects of Perception" at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/supplement1.html.  It has nice illustrations.