Thursday, March 24, 2011
The first in what I hope will be an occasional series of reflections on the principles by which we justify our field.
Posted by Nathaniel Comfort on 03/24 at 11:18 PM
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Prompted by a two very different reviews of Westman’s The Copernican Question, I spent a morning thinking about the form and purpose of a book review. This post tries to hammer those thoughts into something useful.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 11/13 at 12:56 PM
Saturday, September 01, 2012
This useless graph created largely to piss off Edward Tufte charts Kuhn’s use of the word “paradigm” throughout his Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/01 at 10:51 AM
Friday, September 21, 2012
We all know them, those pillars of science on whom the modern world rests. But who really needs them? I suggest that the heroes of serve the needs of scientists more than they do the needs of the laity.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/21 at 11:45 PM
Thursday, January 03, 2013
This post reflects on how Kuhn uses discovery in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This post was originally written for a different context but didn’t see the light of the day there so I post it here (cross posted from here).
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/03 at 01:19 PM
Friday, January 04, 2013
Our intrepid physicist-turned historian of science turns his attention and pencil toward Thomas Kuhn. Here’s what he thought.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/04 at 01:29 PM
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