SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anger, Scientific Method, Natural Theology
2 Nov 2016
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What differs between adherents of different paradigms: quasi-metaphysical commitments. Aristotelian vs. newtonian mechanics, cartesian corpuscularianism vs. Newtonian calculations of orbits and trajectories, kettlewell"s moths, Darwin"s finches, unifying superlunary and sublunary motion, millikan oil drop, etc. ) Show how the it"s resources can be used to solve scientific puzzles. Paradigm application to explain some scientific phenomenon. On the biological side, you can appeal to the machinery of natural selection and evolution to explain why peppered moths" color changes. Wide variety of things that wind up constituting a paradigm is important: kuhn"s account built upon competition of revolutions. Kuhn"s idea is that an important of professional training of scientists is showing and teaching students how to apply theoretical machinery of paradigm indoctrination that takes place: problem solving and labs already been solved. Showing you how to use the theory and work inside this paradigm. Never shown what the theory is not good at.
