Re: Kuhn pretty much defines a mature science as having only a single paradigm, where many of the advances in science required and thrived off pluralism I've found in my reading of Kuhn that he isn't positing that only one paradigm of science can exist (beyond a consensus decision to find objective evidence etc) Rather he's proposing a theory of change WITHIN any given paradigm ie: Once a dominant paradigm has been established.
He explicitly mentions a pre-paradigmatic period, which is where I would place Alignment today, where multiple pa... (read more)
Re: Kuhn pretty much defines a mature science as having only a single paradigm, where many of the advances in science required and thrived off pluralism
I've found in my reading of Kuhn that he isn't positing that only one paradigm of science can exist (beyond a consensus decision to find objective evidence etc) Rather he's proposing a theory of change WITHIN any given paradigm ie: Once a dominant paradigm has been established.
He explicitly mentions a pre-paradigmatic period, which is where I would place Alignment today, where multiple pa... (read more)