PHIL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Paradigm Shift, Blue Reform, Bam Margera
10 May 2016
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Final stage: revolution, when a new broader paradigm emerges and replaces the old one (which falls away). Terminological clarification: theories are made of at least two things, hypotheses, background assumptions (that relate to the hypotheses, broader paradigms are nebulous things that have theories among other parts, theories (hypotheses, background assumptions) Lecture 20: kuhn: revolutions: explicit rules and implicit conventions about practice, shared methods, shared commitments about what should be explained, metaphysical principles, etc, other stuff. Darwin over creationism: each ushered in a new broader paradigm (a. k. a paradigm shifts bam!) Revolutions = paradigm: revolutions are non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one, often uses a different word rather than incompatible : a) Two paradigms cannot cumulatively build on each other; however, kuhn still talks about how a paradigm can be progressive. Lecture 20: kuhn: revolutions: a kind of conversion experience can happen (aka a gestalt switch):
