SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Empirical Evidence, Necker Cube

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: S T A N F O R D, P.B A R R E T T, J.

Document Summary

One aspect of the parallel between political and scientific revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense that existing institutions have ceased adequately to meet the problems posed by an environment that hey have in part created. : deciding which paradigm to adopt based on standards of 1st paradigm. No rational justification to move to 2nd paradigm: can"t be rational, has to be revolutionary. Paradigms aren"t theories, they"re supposed to go much deeper than that: standards of evaluation, institutions of science, etc. i. e. one religion to another religion. Self-supporting one religion won"t tell you to move to another religion incommensurable standards of evaluation: quasi-metaphysical commitments, exemplars, puzzles, standards of evaluation. Paradigms are incommensurable because there is no way to decide which one is better. Adherence to different paradigms literally see and experience different things in enacting with the natural world. Similarly, they don"t share a common language so they can"t even discuss their differences.