Analysis Of Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm And Change

Kuhn’s Paradigm and Change As the world changes around us, and new discoveries arise, one may wonder how these changes and discoveries came about. Science is studied by all age groups of all backgrounds, in order to gain better understanding of the world around us. Curiosity and hypotheses lead to experimentation, observation, and discoveries that change as we progress through time. Studies in science rely on philosophical, historical cases, and data. Over fifty years ago, one man looked into the process of scientific discovery with a unique and revolutionary perspective and changed the way mankind thinks about the scientific world. In 1962, physicist Thomas Kuhn published “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Kuhn’s book gives us an insight to the scientific process and the track that it has taken. Kuhn’s views are different from what was traditionally believed about the scientific method and he has received a large amount of criticism. Kuhn’s book has become one of the most cited academic books of all time (Naughton, 2012). The major controversies with Kuhn’s theories deal with his interpretation on the process of normal science, his development on the theory on phases, and the concept of “incommensureability” in which theories share no …show more content…
It is a completely new scope or solution to a puzzle. Therefore, there is no common basis for comparison between the past and new paradigms. Criticism comes from the fact that old paradigms are completely rejected and at times more than one paradigm exists (Rafferty, 2011). Incommensurability stems from three aspects between the pre and post scientific revolution. The first is that there is a change in the way the problems are handled. Second, there is a change in the concept, and third is a change is research (Anderson,