PHILOS 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Normal Science, Protoscience
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L e c t u r e 8. Kuhn: famous for making history relevant to the phi- losophy of science. 2 types of science: normal & evolutionary science (most science is normal science) Much easier to shoot down a theory (all you need is one counterexample to refute a generalization) The scienti c method is awed as science has bunch of different elds and methods to its own dif- ferent categories. Proto-science --> paradigm is reduced --> normal science --> anomalies accumulate to a critical mass and science goes into crisis. Paradigm: a good example (in ordinary english) Paradigm for kuhn: occasionally a really good example of something / a set of basic assumptions and a set of research methods (that can differ from eld to eld) / a package of claims and methods. Kuhn: this picture of the bulk of scienti c research is both descriptive.
