SOC SCI H1G Lecture 11: Honors Naturalized Epistemology: Lecture 11
21 Jan 2019
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Things that are going to be different between the appearance of two different paradigms. Different paradigms are going to be impossible to compare fairly to decide which one we ought to believe. Catastrophist vs uniformitarian geology, darwinism vs. natural theology) (2) exemplars. The commitments of paradigms are usually implicit in exemplars. Textbooks presents theoretical resources of the paradigm along with textbook examples showing how its resources can be used to solve puzzles. Used to illustrate way you get explanations in a particular scientific paradigm. : why moths in english woods become darker during the industrial revolution; effects of pollution. Often, these exemplars are the explanatory achievements around which new paradigms are born (e. g. newtonian calculations of orbits and trajectories, kettlewell"s moths, Darwin"s finches, unifying superlunary and sublunary motion, millikan oil drop, etc. ) (3) puzzles (e. g. altruism, sexual reproduction, solar neutrinos) Sexual reproduction remains an anomaly for darwinian theory.
