Assessment of Thomas Kuhn's conception of scientific progress

Thomas Kuhn is a philosopher and historian of science who was influential in philosophy of science and many intelectual areas with his famous treatise The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR). Kuhn's explanation in SSR and his conclusions regarding the nature of the scientific enterprise caused intensive controversies since today. Kuhn's thoughts on this subject was not limited with SSR and continued to develop his explanation until last years of his life. For this reason, in this study, I have considered Kuhn's explanation of the scientific enterprise and its development with his post-SSR thoughts. In this process which started with the publication of SSR in 1962 and ended with his last article in 1993, Kuhn made his ideas in SSR more explicit. In the study, I followed how Kuhn in this process solved the problems regarding scientific change. The focus of the study will be Kuhn's conception of scientific progress. Scientific progress is the uniting subject about the problems that Kuhn's SSR caused regarding scientific change. Kuhn overcame these problems with his evolutionary explanation that he started to develop in the last years of his career.