[From Seth Crownover, Friend of the Podcast] If we got anything from the last episode it’s that Thomas Kuhn is sort of a big deal and for good reason. His picture of scientific progress as a human rather than divine endeavor is, it seems to me, plainly true in a general sense if not in all the specifics (the world itself Continue Reading …
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962.
Does scientific knowledge simply accumulate as we learn more and more, coming closer and closer to a full and truthful picture of the world? Kuhn says no! Instead, each scientific sub-culture has its own “paradigm,” or model for what constitutes legitimate science, which includes what problems to study, what to counts as a result, some background assumptions, and other things nebulous enough that you really can’t enumerate them. Learn more.
End song: “Retrogress” from The Fake Johnson Trio New & Improved EP (1996), newly resung/remixed.
Episode 86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
On The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published mostly in 1962.
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn’s thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Precognition of Ep. 86: Thomas Kuhn
Dylan Casey lays out Thomas Kuhn’s thesis in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Topic for #86: Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Progress
Listen now to Dylan’s introduction to the text. Science is just us accumulating more and more knowledge and getting a more and more accurate picture of the world, right? Not according to Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. Yes, there’s progress, in terms of better and better answers to a given question, more and more Continue Reading …