SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Mechanics, Aristotelian Physics, Corpuscularianism
25 Dec 2018
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What differ between adherents of different paradigms: 1. Quasi-metaphysical commitments: central activity of science - solving puzzles, ex. Exemplars: the sort of thing you try in the textbook to show people how to do something, the light and dark colored moths on the trees in england and how they show. Darwinian evolution: learning the working side of the paradigm, gives you an example of how it works in the paradigm, you end up understanding and believing the paradigm as you go through these problems, ex. Darwin"s theory could explain why the galapagos birds looked much like the mainland birds: but the birds on the galapagos were much different from the ones on. Cape verde: this can be explained with adaptive radiation and common descent. It is an explanatory achievement of the new paradigm, something that resisted solution of the old paradigm (an anomaly: ex. Puzzles: ex. altruism, sexual reproduction, solar neutrinos, 4.
