Salesman for a software revolution
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
When Thomas Kuhn popularised the term "paradigm shift" in 1962, the philosopher would not have dreamt it could be so abused by technology marketers. Nowadays, this...
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The Richness of the Stimulus
Babel's Dawn (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... the original argument that carried the day for the Chomskyan paradigm. Readers familiar with Thomas Kuhn ’s account of paradigm shifts already know that these changes are not just readjustments of existing ideas. They change the fundamentals, often by reversing what was previously believed. The new paradigm's central reversal denies that the human brain evolved the capacity to create...
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Steve Fuller on Human Nature
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Steve Fuller is a Sociologist at the University of Warwick in Conventry, UK., and an old Internet acquaintance of mine. Which is to say I use to argue the virtues of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and etc. with him on the HOPOS e-mail list. Steve has written numerous books on Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, and the Governance of Science. Most famously, perhaps, he argued for the Pro -ID forces...
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Video Games and the Paradigm Shift
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Thomas Kuhn was a trained physicist, but he is most famous for his theories on the manner by which science progresses -- often known as the "paradigm shift". The standard view of science is that, as it progresses, it solves new problems in a relatively linear fashion: the more we do science, the more knowledge we accrue. Kuhn, though, says that science proceeds in terms of "paradigms"...
