CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science
21 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
What is science: particular way of producing knowledge, how things work, non-random, hypotheses and testable predictions, empirical, fitting data into models, study of nature, god as causes, makes them natural, not supernatural. Moves from mythical explanations to scientific views. Progress: kuhn challenged the idea of progress, the progressivist model. Then science: which accumulates and comes closer to the truth": kuhn"s model. Data that doesn"t fit i. e ptolemy with his theory of the sun revolving around the earth with the eclipses. How is this going to be fixed. Copernicus proposing the earth revolves around the sun. **may not explain everything previous theory could explain despite solving the crisis (incommensurability) i. e how are humans staying on the earth if the world is. Spinning" around the sun if successive paradigms have nothing to do with each other, in what sense can we say that we"re getting closer to the truth a very complex theory and idea of science being learning the truth".
