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The Copernican Revolution
In The Copernican Revolution, Kuhn studied the development of the heliocentric theory during the renaissance and reflected on the impact it had on science. “Its core was a transformation of mathematical astronomy, but it embraced conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion as well” (Kuhn Preface)
Kuhn, T. (1957). The Copernican Revolution. Harvard University Press. -
Paradigm Shifts
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn proposed the concept of paradigm shifts. As science develops it undergoes changes of paradigms. When this change occurs it shifts the direction of what is accepted because there is more evidence that supports the new paradigm than the old one. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn proposed scientific research and thought consisting of paradigms that would undergo different phases of normal science and revolutionary during their development. During the normal science phase, the development of the paradigm is normal and during the revolutionary phase the paradigm changes. -
Incommensurability
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn proposed different paradigms were not able to be compared to each other because of their differences. This means when a new paradigm is proposed, there is no way to decide that one is better than the other because they cannot be compared.
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