HPS211H1 Lecture Notes - Blackboard, Pure Data, Thomas Kuhn
27 Feb 2014
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. Revolution that leaves in place forms of the existing order. Have to make things hard for the power structures. Use politi revolutions as a model to sci rev. Studied early modern science (potlemy, bruno, newton, bacon, etc) Coined that term the scientific revolution to refer to changes in the learning and natural philopshy wrought by the early moderns. Portrayed the scientific revolution as the result of great minds boldy using their creative genius to produce new theoretical outlooks. Of course just one big rev but also smaller revs. Things can happen within the same domain of inquiry. Historians erroneously portray progressive accumulation of truth and discarding of falsity. They need to be sensitive to discontinuities and radical changes in science. Idea of revolutions ins science is an apt metaphor for understanding such radical changes.
