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Preamble and Notes to the Reader People is always axin’ me (jk, lol, #thatneverhappens), why don’t you post your papers? The answer is that while, for the most part, I enjoy writing in my blog, for some reason I don’t like how my philosophy papers turn out. They seem sterile. Anyway, I’m posting this paper because it’s […]
Read More Critique of Kuhn: Scientific Revolutions and Semantic IncommensurabilityNotes and Thoughts on Kuhn’s The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions: Part 2OverviewKuhn argues that scientific progress comes about when one paradigm is replaced by other. This is in contrast to the view that scientific progress is cumulative, and new theories simply modify existing theoretical structures.Application of The Revolutionary Model to Contemporary ScienceSo, the […]
Read More Is Scientific Progress Cumulative or Revolutionary? Kuhn Part 2: Contemporary ScienceNotes and Thoughts on Imre Lakatos’ ‘Science and Pseudoscience’My favourite quote:“But the history of thought shows us that many people were committed to absurd beliefs. If the strength of beliefs were a hallmark of knowledge, we should have to rank some tales about demons, angels, devils, and of heaven and hell and knowledge. Scientist, on […]
Read More Thaaaats Not Science: Part 2
Wrestling with Philosophy 