Paradigm: An OK Concept for A-OK People
Margaret Masterman has written the essay The Nature of a Paradigm for inclusion in the book Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
Her conclusions are: That there is normal scienceand that it is exactly as Kuhn says it is...it is normally a habit-governed, puzzle-solving activity, not a fundamentally upheaving or falsifying activity paradigm and not hypothesis is now the O.K. word.
Kuhns paradigm is a fundamental and new idea in the philosophy of science and deserves examination and understanding. Masterman contends that comprehending this new concept can best be undertaken by recognizing that paradigm falls within three main epistemological categories.
As a set of beliefs, as a successful metaphysical speculation, as a standard, as a way of seeing, as an organizing principle itself, as a map, and with something which determines a large area of reality--it is a metaparadigm .
Kuhn also defines paradigm as a universally recognized scientific achievement, as a concrete achievement, as a set of political institutions, and as likened to an accepted judicial decisionit is a sociological paradigm .
Finally, Kuhn speaks of a more concrete form for paradigm as a text book, as tools, as instrumentation, as a grammar, as an analogy, and as a gestalt figureit is a construct paradigm .
If you have not yet read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn you must go directly to your closest college library, get a Friend of the Library card for a small yearly fee, and study this book. Anybody wanting to be an enlightened and important person must study this book.
Do you agree that anyone wishing to become an enlightened and important person must study this book?
Margaret Masterman has written the essay The Nature of a Paradigm for inclusion in the book Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
Her conclusions are: That there is normal scienceand that it is exactly as Kuhn says it is...it is normally a habit-governed, puzzle-solving activity, not a fundamentally upheaving or falsifying activity paradigm and not hypothesis is now the O.K. word.
Kuhns paradigm is a fundamental and new idea in the philosophy of science and deserves examination and understanding. Masterman contends that comprehending this new concept can best be undertaken by recognizing that paradigm falls within three main epistemological categories.
As a set of beliefs, as a successful metaphysical speculation, as a standard, as a way of seeing, as an organizing principle itself, as a map, and with something which determines a large area of reality--it is a metaparadigm .
Kuhn also defines paradigm as a universally recognized scientific achievement, as a concrete achievement, as a set of political institutions, and as likened to an accepted judicial decisionit is a sociological paradigm .
Finally, Kuhn speaks of a more concrete form for paradigm as a text book, as tools, as instrumentation, as a grammar, as an analogy, and as a gestalt figureit is a construct paradigm .
If you have not yet read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn you must go directly to your closest college library, get a Friend of the Library card for a small yearly fee, and study this book. Anybody wanting to be an enlightened and important person must study this book.
Do you agree that anyone wishing to become an enlightened and important person must study this book?