According to Thomas Kuhn, the scientific progress of any discipline could be distinguished by a pre-paradigm phase, a normal science phase and a revolution phase. The science advances when a ...

For the most part, Kuhn said, scientists practice “normal science.” They work within a particular theoretical framework, or paradigm, in which the big picture is taken for granted and new ...

Kuhn vs Popper: The struggle for the soul of science by Steve Fuller, Icon, £9.99, ISBN 1840464682 Reviewed by Ray Percival COULD you think about science without considering the conflict between ...

The paradigms in which normal science is done are, like the fabric of the universe, somewhat stretchy; new ideas, sometimes quite big ones, can be incorporated without wholesale change.