Philosophy of Science — Guido

Readings, questions and assignments, week by week. Lectures on Mondays, seminars (presentations and discussion) on Thursdays, 13:15–16:00 in BBG 315/317.

Week 4 Kuhn and Quine 5–11 October

Lecture Mon 5 Oct · Seminar Thu 8 Oct · Guido Bacciagaluppi & Marina Passaro

Thu 8 Oct
1962 map-making caloric theory of heat anomalies paradigms normal science X-rays phlogiston Newton v Einstein the restricted conception of scientific theory

The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn · Week 4, Thursday 8 October

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press), ch. IX

Paradigm choice can never be settled by logic and experiment alone; the positivist view of scientific theory leaves no room for surprise or anomaly, and therefore no room for revolution.

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