Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

This book revolutionized how we look at science. Here is an account of it.

2 comments:

Steve Lovell said...

Kuhn is essential reading. Popper's model of science is a good start but ultimately too simple.

More radical still than Thomas Kuhn is Paul Feyerabend's Against Method.

My own views are probably closer to those of Imre Lakatos.

William said...

Obligate trolling Lakatos quote:

"nobody to date has yet found a demarcation criterion according to which Darwin can be described as scientific"

--Imre lakotos in 1973

(In reply, I'd say that nobody to date has found a demarcation criterion according to which any theory about events in the past can be described as scientific.)