Kuhn wanted to free us from the illusion that knowledge is independent of history and of the sociality that marks us as humans, but he did not think that all beliefs that our history and sociality put before us are equally worthy. Indeed, he quickly moved away from the "shift happens" conception of paradigms as bundles of beliefs, emphasizing instead that they're examples of good scientific practice that researchers apply in their daily work.Read more
Monday, April 23, 2012
Shift Happens
David Weinberger writes about Thomas Kuhn's famous work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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