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Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) (Stanford, 2004)
Known as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, Kuhn rocketed to the front of everyone’s mind due to his 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” (Stanford, 2004) In this book he coined the term paradigm shift which is a word to describe the shifting of thought from one view to another. (Lesson 3, n.d.) .....See full in assignment text box...... -
Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) (CCSU, n.d.)
Lakatos designed the core and periphery model of scientific theory. (CCSU, n.d.) This theory created a protective hypothesis against scientific change to protect the established hypothesis called the ad hoc hypothesis. (CCSU, n.d.) This is the precursor to what we know today as the null hypothesis which is protected from the alternative hypothesis by the confidence interval and statistical significance. .....See full in assignment text box...... -
Hilary Putnam (1926 – 2016) (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019)
Putnam always maintained a focus on realism even though he always managed to reinvent the type of realism in which he espoused but at the core of everything was meaning. In 1975, Putnam wrote his most influencial work in a paper titled “The Meaning of Meaning.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019) .....See full in assignment text box...... -
Nancy Cartwright (1944-Present) (Encyclopedia, 2006)
In 1983, Cartwright became widely known for her essays titled “How the Laws of Physics Lie” which was notoriously controversial because it stated that there are no laws of physics which state truth of the world. (Encyclopedia, 2006) She states that the world is more chaotic in nature and not held under a rigid code of laws or rigid structure. (Thur.de, 2004) .....See full in assignment text box...... -
References
References
(n.d.). Imre Lakatos: Scientific Research Programs. Central Connecticut State University. Retrieved from https://bertie.ccsu.edu/naturesci/PhilSci/Lakatos.html
(n.d.). Lesson 3: The structure of scientific revolutions (1962). .....See full in assignment text box......
