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A 6 page essay that summarizes and analyzes two essays by Thomas S. Kuhn, "Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions" and "Objectivity, Value Judgement and Theory Choice." The writer discusses how these essays express Kuhn's views pertaining to the manner in which science periodically undergoes paradigm shifts. No additional sources cited.
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science does not follow this pattern, but rather changes via scientific revolutions in which a new paradigm completely replaces an older one. Bibliography lists 3 sources. khkuhn.wps Thomas
S. Kuhn/Structure of Scientific Revolutions - March, 2001 - properly! Thomas S. Kuhns groundbreaking book The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962, University of Chicago Press) radically altered the way that change in science is perceived. The traditional understanding states that science progresses by small increments of
change, which occur due to experimentation, becoming progressively more accurate (Buchwald, 1996). While Kuhn agrees that the body of scientific knowledge has become increasingly more accurate and coherent over the
past several centuries, he insists that scientific theories, and the "instruments and experiments associated with them" do not change bit by bit. Rather, Kuhn maintains that these theories should be
understood as integrated wholes that are not easily replaced (Buchwald, 1996). In other words, Kuhn postulated that science advances via revolutions rather then incremental change. In his Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn defines the term "paradigms" as "universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13).
The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established via textbooks that are currently in use, the curricula of colleges and universities, and in the pages
of scientific journals relating to specific fields of inquiry (Davidson, 1997). In other words, Kuhn uses the word "paradigm" in order to explain the core concepts relating to the
structure of scientific revolutions, while also using this premise to sum up the circular development of scientific history (Jiang, 1998). According to Kuhn, scientific innovation follows a very predictable path.
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