Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution

Ok, let's settle this thing once and for all! Ok, not really. But maybe we can come up with a settled answer that works until further notice. (Sometimes philosophy and science both need to do that!)

If scientific paradigms keep getting rejected, is science actually getting anywhere?

But really, what else would we expect?

Thomas Kuhn ain't the opposite of Karl Popper.

It's hard to notice a paradigm change after it's happened. (But what did we expect? It's easy to see the world; it's not as easy to see how we're seeing the world.)

Modern science has gone all the way back to Aristotle in some respects.

How science responds to the crisis of a paradigm not being able to solve major anomalies.

Kuhn talks about stuff science normally does.

Thomas Kuhn on how new scientific theories happen.

What science does with stuff it can't figure out.

It's about solving puzzles so the paradigm explains the world better.

More from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Kuhn explains his method. From the first chapter of a great book in the philosophy of science.

Philosophy of science is not as simple as Kuhn vs. Popper!