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gemistos 's review for:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
Several points of interest
-incommensurability of paradigms
-theory laden-ness of "facts"
-scientists can't switch back and forth between or simultaneously work with conflicting paradigms
-the illiberal nature (liberal arts education in the Straussian/canonical sense) of scientific pedagogy is vital to the success of the whole enterprise.
-science is not in any sense approaching an objectively "true" description of reality, no paradigm-independent transhistorical standard for measuring the "success" of the scientific enterprise
all in all, a must read for anyone who is even remotely intrigued by the apparent success of science
-incommensurability of paradigms
-theory laden-ness of "facts"
-scientists can't switch back and forth between or simultaneously work with conflicting paradigms
-the illiberal nature (liberal arts education in the Straussian/canonical sense) of scientific pedagogy is vital to the success of the whole enterprise.
-science is not in any sense approaching an objectively "true" description of reality, no paradigm-independent transhistorical standard for measuring the "success" of the scientific enterprise
all in all, a must read for anyone who is even remotely intrigued by the apparent success of science