Comments on: Book review – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:25 +0000

[…] we need, I agree, a paradigm shift. They draw an interesting parallel with Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Just as scientific dogmas disappear not because minds are changed but because the old guard dies, […]

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By: Book review – Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:47:37 +0000

[…] This section is a beautiful example of a paradigm shift as philosopher Thomas Kuhn described in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Evidence from various disciplines, including biogeography and geophysics, started to come together […]

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By: Book review – Getting Science Wrong: Why the Philosophy of Science Matters | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:46:46 +0000

[…] can work within different, broadly accepted frameworks (so-called paradigms – Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is where the term ” paradigm shift” originates) is shown to often be confused for […]

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By: Book review – How Scientific Progress Occurs: Incrementalism and the Life Sciences | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:24:54 +0000

[…] Axel Carlson explores the relevance to biology of the ideas Thomas S. Kuhn formulated in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Having read both books back-to-back, this review follows on the one of Kuhn’s […]

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