Friends of Discovery
6 important questions on Friends of Discovery
Fuller's opinion about Popper vs Kuhn?
Kuhn: sience progress by disciplinary conformism.
Neither account well enough for scientific progress
Kuhn's normal science vs revolutionary science
revolutionary changes the paradigm. Theory-ladenness implies that successive paradigms are incommenserable
Lakatos's side vs Feyerabend
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
Feyerabend's side vs Lakatos
Laudan's side vs Nickles
Acceptance = belief = strong epistemic commitment.
Pursuing ideas is rational only if the novel research tradition has higher rate of problem solving.
Context of pursuit.
Nickles side vs Laudan
Context or background is part of the problem.
progressive enrichment, directing the inquiry.
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