…and ultimately to compete for funding, prestige and recognition. and all of this aligns very closely to the ideas of Thomas Kuhn who in his seminal work the structure of scientific revolutions argued that science is practiced within a shared framework of…

…and reframes how we think about progress and creativity. Which leads us perfectly into a final thought to chew on. Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher of science, talked about scientific paradigms, the shared reality a scientific community agrees on, and how these…

…into the culture, the subculture of, you know, the PhD program, the laboratory tea room, the stuff... I mean, as Thomas Kuhn showed in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, paradigms aren't just ideas. They're communities of people with shared…

…Science Foundation, that's science. And that's really part of the paradigm or sociological aspect that Ganesh talked about. What Thomas Kuhn showed in his famous book on the structure of scientific revolutions is it's not just about evidence and reason…

…basically it's defending a world view by rejecting things that don't fit in explaining them away yes and long long ago Thomas Kuhn the philosopher of science the historian of science in his theory of paradigms and paradigm shifts, pointed out that at any…

…Science Foundation, that's science. And that's really part of the paradigm or sociological aspect that Ganesh talked about. What Thomas Kuhn showed in his famous book on the structure of scientific revolutions is it's not just about evidence and reason…

…science is so successful. But actually, science is perfectly capable of changing its worldview. The great historian of science Thomas Kuhn, in his famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in 1962, showed that scientific revolutions occur when a…