3/8/2023 0 Comments Kuhn paradigm shift![]() A paradigm includes a diverse set of elements - conceptual schemes, research techniques, bodies of accepted data and theory, and embedded criteria and processes for the validation of results. Science really gets underway when a scientific tradition has succeeded on formulating a paradigm. The main threads of Kuhn’s approach to science are well known. And the framework threatened to lead to a kind of cognitive relativism: “truth” is relative to a set of extra-rational conventions of conceptual scheme and interpretation of data. Kuhn forced us to ask questions about truth, justification, and conceptual discovery - even as he provided a basis for being skeptical about the stronger claims for scientific rationality by positivists like Reichenbach and Carnap. And it cast into doubt the most fundamental assumptions of positivism as a theory of how the science enterprise actually works.Īnd yet it also preserved an epistemological perspective. ![]() It legitimated the introduction of the study of the history of science into the philosophy of science - and thereby also legitimated the perspective of sociological study of the actual practices of science. For one thing, it shifted the focus from the context of justification to the context of discovery. (See earlier posts on the Vienna Circle post, post.) And almost immediately it stimulated a profound change in the fundamental questions that defined the philosophy of science. ![]() The book was published in the Vienna Circle’s International Encyclopedia of Unified Science in 1962. Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) brought about a paradigm shift of its own, in the way that philosophers thought about science.
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