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Douglas on progress
13/10/24
A follow-up to yesterdays' post about Heather Douglas' discussion of Kuhn's inability to make sense of progress:
Her central claim is that Kuhn's trouble with progress results from a commitment to the distinction between pure and applied science. She traces the history -
Kuhn on progress
13/10/22
We've finished Structure in my Scientific Revolutions course, and today we're discussing Heather Douglas' forthcoming article "Pure science and the problem of progress". She argues that Kuhn is both committed to there being scientific progress and also forced to deny the pos -
Kuhn without incommensurability
13/10/18
[cross-posted at It's Only a Theory]
We are finishing the close reading of Kuhn's Structure in my Scientific Revolutions course.
On Wednesday, we talked about Kuhn's claim that different paradigms are incommensurable, and today we talked about the considerations -
Read and Woolley on Wray on Kuhn
13/10/17
In a recent issue of BJPS, Rupert Read and Jessica Woolley review Brad Wray's book Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology.* I've been thinking about Kuhn recently, too, because I'm teaching Scientific Revolutions this term.
Read and Woolley survey Wray's argument -
The train of citations
13/10/14
Some philosophers have a general picture of things which has been developed across a number of separate articles such that, every time they articulate it further, they cite all of the previous places where they've presented earlier or partial versions of it. If the view is never pulled together -
The open access dragnet
13/10/07
In Who's Afraid of Peer Review, recently published in Science, John Bohannon reports on an experiment he did with open access science journals. He sent them a spoof paper that had the form of a serious article but was chock full of horrible errors. Only about 38% of the journals rejected it. Bo -
The Batman paradigm
13/10/05
I am teaching my Scientific Revolutions course this term, and so I've been rereading Kuhn. I also happened to be reading Roy Cook's recent article on canon in serial fiction.
Cook is especially interested in what he calls MSCFs: massive, serialized, collaborative fictions. Examp -
Happy eighth blogiversary!
13/10/04
Today marks the end of this blog's year eight.
Last year, I forgot to mark the blog-year until late November. This year, I wrote the blogiversary post ahead of time in June and dated it to appear today.
I did remember it in time, however, and so updated the post to say tha
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